Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: 40 Chestnut Road, Sutton Benger, Chippenham, SN15 4RP – View on map
- Phone: 01249720407
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Hayley Clayton
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 14 families put it first for 18 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 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: 20
- % eligible for free school meals: 12.1%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 23.5% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 28% moved to another school, 72% 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: 4.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 6.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
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: 85% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 26 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 82% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 82%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 85% · Writing 95% · Maths 95% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 20 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 8th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =8St Michael's CofE Aided Primary85%
- =8St. Peter's CE Primary Academy85%
- =8Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School85%
- =11Dinton CofE Primary School83%
- =11Woodford Valley Church of England Aided School83%
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112th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #110Stratford-sub-Castle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolGood
- #111Studley Green Primary SchoolGood
- #112Sutton Benger Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #113Sutton Veny CofE SchoolGood
- #114The Avenue Primary School and Children's CentreGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £4,694 (2024-25)
167th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #165Queen's Crescent School£5,320
- #166Bowerhill Primary School£5,244
- #167Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School£4,694
- #168Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School£4,558
- #169Westbury Leigh CofE Primary School£4,265
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