Whitesheet Church of England Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: Chapel Lane, Zeals, Warminster, BA12 6NL – View on map
- Phone: 01747840394
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Richard Boase
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 16
- % eligible for free school meals: 30.8%
- 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: 0% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- 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: 8.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card May 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
- Achievement Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 50% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 9 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 67%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 50% · Writing 67% · Maths 83% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 50%
- Average test scores: reading 102, 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 123rd of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =123St John's Church of England Primary School, Tisbury50%
- =123St Mary's Catholic Primary School50%
- =123Whitesheet Church of England Primary Academy50%
- =123Woodlands Primary School50%
- =133Cherhill CofE School48%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £10,383 (2024-25)
12th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #10St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Malmesbury£10,397
- #11Marden Vale CofE Academy£10,384
- #12Whitesheet Church of England Primary Academy£10,383
- #13Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Mary's and St John's£10,372
- #14Kennet Valley Church of England Aided Primary School£10,335
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