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Pewsey Vale School

Secondary Ages 11-16 330 pupils Pewsey
Ofsted: Requires Improvement
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Pewsey Vale School is an academy converter in Pewsey for pupils aged 11 to 16. It has 330 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for Pewsey Vale School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in February 2023 of its predecessor, Pewsey Vale School. In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 34.4, and 28% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE. Absence is higher than at most other secondary schools, with 13% of sessions missed in 2024/25 against 8.4% nationally, and 37% of pupils were persistently absent.

GCSE results: 2026.

Type Secondary / Academy converter
Age Range 11-16
Religion Unknown
Address Wilcot Road
Wiltshire
Pewsey
SN9 5EW
Reference Number 151533

General Makeup

Number of pupils 330
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 55.45%
Girls: 44.55%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 32.6%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 2.4%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 19.7

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 33 22 55
8 32 35 67
9 37 28 65
10 42 44 86
11 39 18 57

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 90.3%
Unclassified 2.7%
Mixed, Other 1.5%
White, Other 0.9%
White & Black (African) 0.6%
African 0.6%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.3%
White & Asian 0.3%
Irish 0.3%

This school has not been graded since it changed URN, usually on converting to an academy. The rating shown is from its predecessor, Pewsey Vale School, inspected in February 2023.

Overall Ofsted Rating Requires Improvement
Last Report Date This school has not had an inspection yet.
Date Report

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
34.4

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 28.1%
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 38.6%
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Year 7 admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 38 10
Third Preference 21 1
From another Local Authority 1 1

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Pewsey Vale School had 334 pupils for 525 places. 191 places (36.4%) were unfilled.

Year 7 intake in the “Pewsey Secondary” planning area

Wiltshire counted 68 Year 7 pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 53 in 2031–32, down 22%.

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 Pewsey Vale School attended 87.0% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 37.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

2025
Authorised absence 8.2%
Unauthorised absence 4.8%
Severely absent pupils 7.9%

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, 18.0% of pupils at Pewsey Vale School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 62.4
Permanent exclusions 0

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 Pewsey Vale School had 16.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7).

Pupils per teacher

2026
Pupils per adult 11.7
Teachers who left state teaching –
Teachers who took any sick leave –
Sick days per teacher –

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, 9.4% of pupils at Pewsey Vale School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 13.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Autistic spectrum disorder 7 26
Social, emotional and mental health 15 8
Moderate learning difficulty 3 4
Speech, language and communication needs 1 4
Specific learning difficulty 2 1
Physical disability 1 1
Hearing impairment 1 0
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Vision impairment 0 1

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

Name Distance
Pewsey Primary School
Wilcot Road, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5EJ
0.09 miles
St Francis School
Marlborough Road, Pewsey, SN9 5NT
0.49 miles
Oare Church of England Primary School
Cold Blow, Oare, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 4JL
1.95 miles
Easton Royal Academy
The Street, Easton Royal, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5LZ
3.07 miles
Woodborough Church of England Primary School
Broad Street, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5PL
3.21 miles
Rushall Church of England Primary School
Rushall, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 6EN
3.26 miles
Burbage Primary School
Blackmans Lane, Off Ailesbury Way, Burbage, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 3TP
4.62 miles
Kennet Valley Church of England Aided Primary School
Lockeridge, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 4EL
4.81 miles
Name Distance

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What is Pewsey Vale School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Pewsey Vale School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in February 2023 of its predecessor, Pewsey Vale School.

How many pupils does Pewsey Vale School have?

Pewsey Vale School has 330 pupils on roll.

What age range does Pewsey Vale School cover?

Pewsey Vale School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Pewsey Vale School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 34.4, and 28% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Pewsey Vale School?

Pewsey Vale School is at Wilcot Road, Wiltshire, Pewsey, SN9 5EW.

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