St Bartholomew's Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: The Rosary, Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8AZ – View on map
- Phone: 01793853288
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Daniel Oakes
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 51 families put it first for 51 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 51 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 67
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.8%
- Pupil mix: 4 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 11% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.2% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 52% moved to another school, 48% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wiltshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Wiltshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 8.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 22.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 30 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 19 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 7 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 66% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 12% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 61% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 61%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 68% · Writing 88% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 104
- Based on: 59 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 64th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =64Bitham Brook Primary School66%
- =64By Brook Valley CofE Primary School66%
- =64St Bartholomew's Primary Academy66%
- =67Bowerhill Primary School65%
- =67Bratton Primary School65%
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95th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #93Somerfords' Walter Powell CofE AcademyGood
- #94Southwick Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #95St Bartholomew's Primary AcademyGood
- #96St George's Church of England Primary School, SemingtonGood
- #97St John's Catholic Primary School, TrowbridgeGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,768 (2024-25)
156th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #154Zouch Academy£5,796
- #155Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School£5,775
- #156St Bartholomew's Primary Academy£5,768
- #157Cherhill CofE School£5,687
- #158King's Gate Primary School£5,623
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