St Nicholas Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Idmiston Road, Porton, Salisbury, SP4 0LB – View on map
- Phone: 01980610401
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Jake Headteacher
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 20 families put it first for 20 places – 10 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 9 · 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: 12
- % eligible for free school meals: 8.6%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.5% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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: 3.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 74% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 75% against an expected 68%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 75%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 91% · Writing 87% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 96%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 106
- Based on: 23 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: 30th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =28Minety Church of England Primary School75%
- =28Pitton Church of England Primary School75%
- #30St Nicholas Church of England Primary School74%
- =31Box Church of England Primary School73%
- =31Bulford St Leonard's C of E (VA) Primary School73%
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104th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #102St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, PurtonGood
- #103St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #104St Nicholas Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #105St Osmund's Catholic Primary School, SalisburyGood
- #106St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, CorshamGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,597 (2024-25)
103rd of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #101Nursteed Community Primary School£6,618
- #102St Michael's CofE Aided Primary£6,598
- #103St Nicholas Church of England Primary School£6,597
- #104St. Peter's CE Primary Academy£6,594
- #105Pitton Church of England Primary School£6,582
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