Keevil CofE Primary School

About Keevil CofE Primary School

If you're looking for a small village primary where parents are overwhelmingly positive, Keevil CofE Primary School is hard to ignore. In the most recent Parent View survey, covering responses from September 2024 to September 2025, a remarkable 98% of the 50 respondents said they would recommend the school to other parents. That's backed up by some strikingly high individual scores: 92% of parents strongly agreed that their child feels safe, and 82% strongly agreed that their child is happy. The school is also clearly popular locally — for the 2025/26 admissions round, it received 18 applications for just 7 places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.57. All 7 first-preference applicants were offered a place, but with demand more than double the available spaces, getting in is far from guaranteed.

Academically, Keevil sits in a solid middle ground within Wiltshire. In the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, 58% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — exactly in line with the local authority average of 58%. That places the school 80th out of 159 primary schools in Wiltshire, and in the bottom half nationally by this measure. However, individual subject scores tell a slightly stronger story: average reading and maths scaled scores were 107 and 105 respectively, both above the national benchmark of 100. A higher-than-average proportion of pupils achieved the higher standard in reading (37%) and maths (26%). The school's most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in March 2025, confirmed that standards are being maintained, with a Good rating across all categories including behaviour, personal development and early years provision. That's a step down from its previous Outstanding grade in 2012, but the report noted no decline in quality.

The school itself is a Church of England primary with 81 pupils on roll, well under its capacity of 115, which means class sizes are small. Facilities include a Forest School area, a library, music rooms and a chapel, and the extracurricular offering is broad for a school this size: clubs cover coding, choir, drama, science and eco activities, while sports include netball, swimming, cricket, tennis and gymnastics. Keevil also lists SEND provisions for a range of needs including dyslexia, speech and language difficulties, social and emotional mental health needs, and autistic spectrum disorder — though the Parent View data on SEND support had no responses, so it's hard to gauge parent satisfaction in that area. This is a school that will particularly suit families who value a close-knit, rural setting with strong community feel and high parent confidence, but who are comfortable with academic results that are solid rather than standout.

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