Millbrook Primary School

Millbrook Primary School is a welcoming and caring school where pupils feel happy and safe, and relationships between staff and pupils are positive. Pupils behave well, show kindness and respect, and are enthusiastic learners. Reading is central to the school’s work, with an effective phonics curriculum and strong early years practice helping children build language and confidence. The curriculum is ambitious and well sequenced, including for pupils with SEND and those in the school’s specialist resource base, and safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Strengths

• Staff build positive relationships and help pupils feel happy and safe
• Pupils behave calmly and show kindness and respect
• Reading is at the heart of the school and pupils read high-quality texts
• The phonics curriculum is effective and helps pupils build fluency and confidence
• The curriculum is ambitious and builds knowledge over time, including in early years
• Pupils with SEND, including those in the ‘ark’ unit, are well supported to access the curriculum
• Pupils show positive attitudes to learning and respond well to staff
• Personal development is strong, including community contributions and resilience work
• Leadership, trust and trustees have an accurate understanding of strengths and next steps
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, some planned activities do not secure or deepen pupils’ knowledge well enough
• As a result, pupils do not always learn as much as they could in those subjects

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 Millbrook Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.7% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Millbrook 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 Millbrook Primary School had 23.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.5% 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, 11.5% of pupils at Millbrook Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 9.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 23 pupils.

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 Millbrook Primary School received £7,189 and spent £7,673 for each of its 356 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £99,000 (-£279 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Grove Learning Trust, income was £6,237 and spending £6,421 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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Millbrook Primary School is part of Grove Learning Trust, which runs 9 schools. The nearest others:

• Shaw Ridge Primary School Swindon
• Peatmoor Community Primary School Swindon
• Wroughton Junior School Swindon
• Wroughton Infant School Swindon
• Haydonleigh Primary School Swindon
• Oakhurst Community Primary School Swindon
• Southfield Junior School Swindon
• Eastrop Infant School Swindon

What is Millbrook Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Millbrook Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2025.

When was Millbrook Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Millbrook Primary School was last inspected in January 2025.

How many pupils does Millbrook Primary School have?

Millbrook Primary School has 373 pupils on roll.

What age range does Millbrook Primary School cover?

Millbrook Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 61% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Millbrook Primary School?

Millbrook Primary School is at Worsley Road, Freshbrook, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 8NU.