Willowbrook Primary School
General Information
- Address: Broadcloth Lane, Trowbridge, BA14 7HE – View on map
- Phone: 01225355511
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Lindsay Hann
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 6 families put it first for 6 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: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 53
- % eligible for free school meals: 62.4%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (more mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 18% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 30.6% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% 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: 6.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 18.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 28.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card June 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 Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Needs attention
- Leadership and governance Needs attention
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2022). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 38% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 21 percentage points below the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 38% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 38%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 56% · Writing 63% · Maths 38% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 63%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 99
- Based on: 16 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 155th of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =155River Mead School38%
- =155St Paul's Primary School38%
- =155Willowbrook Primary School38%
- #159Studley Green Primary School36%
- =160Ludwell Primary School35%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,684 (2024-25)
30th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #28Horningsham Primary School£8,773
- #29Heddington Church of England Primary School£8,758
- #30Willowbrook Primary School£8,684
- #31St George's Catholic Primary School, Warminster£8,622
- #32Rushall Church of England Primary School£8,493
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