St Thomas
General Information
- Address: High Street, Salisbury, SP3 4RZ – View on map
- Phone: 01980620435
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Chloe Stobbart
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 5 families put it first for 6 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 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 8 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 5
- % eligible for free school meals: 11.4%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 33.3% 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 (average of 2 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: 8.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 30.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 67% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 55%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 67% · Maths 67% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 67%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 102
- Based on: 6 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 57th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =57Brinkworth Earl Danby's Church of England Primary67%
- =57Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School67%
- =57St Thomas 67%
- =57The Grove Primary School67%
- =57The New Forest Church of England Primary School67%
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107th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #105St Osmund's Catholic Primary School, SalisburyGood
- #106St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, CorshamGood
- #107St Thomas Good
- #108St. Peter's CE Primary AcademyGood
- #109Stanton St Quintin Primary and Nursery SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £12,073 (2024-25)
4th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #2St Mary's Broughton Gifford Voluntary Controlled Church of England Primary School£14,899
- #3Oare Church of England Primary School£13,139
- #4St Thomas £12,073
- #5Longford Church of England Primary School£12,044
- #6Amesbury Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£11,837
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