St Peter's CofE Academy
General Information
- Address: Lord's Mead, Chippenham, SN14 0LL – View on map
- Phone: 01249653537
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Gordon Nunn
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 13 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: 2023 11 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 31
- % eligible for free school meals: 16.8%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 7% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 27.5% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 15% moved to another school, 85% 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. 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: 4.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 10.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 7 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 48% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 50% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 50%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 70% · Writing 70% · Maths 70% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 67%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 104
- Based on: 27 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 133rd of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =133Durrington Church of England Controlled Junior School48%
- =133Marden Vale CofE Academy48%
- =133St Peter's CofE Academy48%
- =133The Corsham Regis Primary Academy48%
- =133The Manor CofE VC Primary School48%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £2,337 (2024-25)
176th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #174Gomeldon Primary School£2,349
- #175Woodford Valley Church of England Aided School£2,345
- #176St Peter's CofE Academy£2,337
- #177Somerfords' Walter Powell CofE Academy£2,222
- #178Ridgeway Farm CofE Academy£2,173
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