The Mead Community Primary School
General Information
- Address: Hackett Place, Hilperton, Trowbridge, BA14 7GN – View on map
- Phone: 01225759273
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mark Stenton
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 50 families put it first for 50 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: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 42
- % eligible for free school meals: 9.2%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 14% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.2% 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 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.
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: 4.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 29 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 28 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 21 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 56% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 54% against an expected 67%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 74% · Writing 71% · Maths 69% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 74%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 104
- Based on: 72 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 110th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =110Crockerton CofE Primary School56%
- =110Fitzmaurice Primary School56%
- =110The Mead Community Primary School56%
- =114Hilperton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School55%
- =114North Bradley CofE Primary School55%
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116th of 143 primary schools in Wiltshire for Ofsted rating
- #114The Avenue Primary School and Children's CentreGood
- #115The Corsham Regis Primary AcademyGood
- #116The Mead Community Primary SchoolGood
- #117The Minster CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #118The Trinity Church of England Primary AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,433 (2024-25)
113th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #111Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£6,441
- #112Burbage Primary School£6,440
- #113The Mead Community Primary School£6,433
- #114Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School£6,387
- #115St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Corsham£6,370
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