Wroxall Primary School
General Information
- Address: Castle Road, Wroxall, Ventnor, PO38 3DP – View on map
- Phone: 01983852290
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Tara Hopkinson
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 11 families put it first for 12 places – 9 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 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 39
- % eligible for free school meals: 43.3%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Isle of Wight average)
- English as an additional language: 3% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 36.8% a year (Isle of Wight 17.4%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 63% moved to another school, 37% 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 Isle of Wight: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 3 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.6 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 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 Isle of Wight, 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: 6.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 32.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 46% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 5 percentage points below the Isle of Wight average (51%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 44% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 44%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 71% · Maths 50% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 67%
- Average test scores: reading 101, maths 99
- Based on: 24 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: 25th of 36 junior and primary schools in the area
- =22St Mary's Catholic Primary School48%
- #24St Helens Primary School47%
- #25Wroxall Primary School46%
- =26Barton Primary School42%
- =26Freshwater & Yarmouth Church of England Aided Primary School42%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £12,330 (2024-25)
3rd of 35 primary schools in Isle of Wight for spending per pupil
- #1Arreton St George's Church of England (Aided) Primary School£13,146
- #2Brading Church of England Controlled Primary School£12,385
- #3Wroxall Primary School£12,330
- #4Barton Primary School£9,323
- #5Oakfield Church of England Aided Primary School, Ryde£8,764
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