Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Calne, Wiltshire·SN11 9BX
Composite score
35.8
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#12,189
National rank
#1278
In South West
#135
In Wiltshire
Top 82%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
39%
% achieving higher RWM
9%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
3 first choices, 3 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
5
any preference, for 3 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.5020231.0020241.0020251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
117
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£9,085
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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About Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School

Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Calne, Wiltshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 117 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 39% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 3.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 9% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 3 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Saint Edmund's Roman Catholic Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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