St Martin's CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Shady Bower, Salisbury, SP1 2RG – View on map
- Phone: 01722554300
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Oliver Martindale
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 4 families put it first for 5 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 5 · 2025 4 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 38
- % eligible for free school meals: 28.8%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 60% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.8% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 63% moved to another school, 37% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (one year, 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 6.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Inadequate 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 47% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 12 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 74% · Writing 63% · Maths 89% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 53%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 105
- Based on: 19 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
Year 6 SATs: joint 139th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =133The Manor CofE VC Primary School48%
- =139Newtown Community Primary School47%
- =139St Martin's CofE Primary School47%
- #141Rushall Church of England Primary School46%
- =142Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School45%
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143rd of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #141Wellington Eagles Primary AcademyRequires improvement
- #142Westbury Leigh CofE Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #143St Martin's CofE Primary SchoolInadequate
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,356 (2024-25)
35th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #33Kiwi Primary School£8,463
- #34Baydon St Nicholas Church of England Primary School£8,408
- #35St Martin's CofE Primary School£8,356
- #36St John's Church of England Primary School, Tisbury£8,350
- #37Dinton CofE Primary School£8,338
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