Queen's Crescent School

Queen’s Crescent School is performing well overall, achieving a good rating in all areas of education, behavior, personal development, leadership, and early years provision. The school's commitment to inclusion is evident, as pupils express a sense of safety and belonging. Staff relationships with pupils are positive, contributing to a calm and supportive learning environment. The ambitious curriculum promotes literacy and mathematics effectively, with strong phonics instruction and a focus on individual pupil progress, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Though the school shows clear strengths, it is in the early stages of addressing some curriculum gaps in terms of essential knowledge in subjects such as history and geography, which impacts the depth of pupils' learning in those areas.

Strengths

• Positive relationships between adults and pupils ensure a supportive environment.
• Strong emphasis on early reading and a well-structured phonics programme.
• Ambitious curriculum that builds on early learning and engages pupils.
• Teachers use assessment data effectively in literacy and mathematics.
• Pupils enjoy leadership opportunities and demonstrate responsibility.

Areas for Improvement

• Some wider curriculum subjects lack clarity on essential knowledge.
• Assessment is not used as effectively in subjects beyond mathematics and phonics.

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 Queen's Crescent School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.5% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Queen's Crescent 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 Queen's Crescent School had 20.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 1.2% 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, 19.5% of pupils at Queen's Crescent School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.2% 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 Queen's Crescent School received £5,836 and spent £5,805 for each of its 415 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £365,000 (£880 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 Chippenham · Wiltshire local authority: places and applications

Queen's Crescent School is part of Pickwick Academy Trust, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

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

What is Queen's Crescent School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Queen's Crescent School is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was Queen's Crescent School last inspected by Ofsted?

Queen's Crescent School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Queen's Crescent School have?

Queen's Crescent School has 411 pupils on roll.

What age range does Queen's Crescent School cover?

Queen's Crescent School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Queen's Crescent School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Queen's Crescent School?

Queen's Crescent School is at Windsor Close, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14 0QT.