Corsham Primary School

Corsham Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across key areas such as the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership, and early years provision. The school is a welcoming environment where dedicated staff nurture a supportive atmosphere, contributing to students' social and academic success. The curriculum is ambitious and broad, allowing pupils to engage meaningfully across a variety of subjects. However, while the school maintains high expectations, there are areas needing improvement in regards to some students' writing and deeper knowledge retention in a minority of subjects.

Strengths

• Welcoming school environment with dedicated staff.
• High levels of care and nurture supporting pupils' social and academic growth.
• Ambitious and broad inquiry-based curriculum.
• Strong focus on reading from early years.
• Effective support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils feel safe and confident to express concerns.
• Strong governance with well-skilled trustees.
• Opportunities for personal development through various activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent writing standards among pupils, especially disadvantaged groups.
• Some subjects lack clarity on essential knowledge leading to insufficient depth of understanding.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Corsham Primary School attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.6% of pupils at Corsham Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Corsham Primary School had 24.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 17.4% of pupils at Corsham Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Corsham Primary School received £6,626 and spent £6,658 for each of its 666 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £397,000 (£597 per pupil).

Across all 21 schools of Pickwick Academy Trust, income was £6,042 and spending £5,893 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Corsham · Wiltshire local authority: places and applications

Corsham Primary School is part of Pickwick Academy Trust, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Queen's Crescent School Chippenham
• Ivy Lane Primary School Chippenham
• Aloeric Primary School Melksham
• Princecroft Primary School Warminster
• St George's Church of England School, Bourton Gillingham
• Woodford Valley Church of England Aided School Salisbury
• Milton-on-Stour Church of England Primary School Gillingham
• Gillingham Primary School Gillingham
• Wyke Primary School Gillingham
• Gomeldon Primary School Salisbury

What is Corsham Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Corsham Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2024.

When was Corsham Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Corsham Primary School was last inspected in July 2024.

How many pupils does Corsham Primary School have?

Corsham Primary School has 651 pupils on roll.

What age range does Corsham Primary School cover?

Corsham Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Corsham Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 65% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Corsham Primary School?

Corsham Primary School is at Pound Pill, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9YW.