St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary School

About St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary School

St Thomas à Becket Church of England Aided Primary School in Wiltshire was rated Good overall by Ofsted in its most recent inspection in February 2024, a rating it has held consistently across both its graded inspections. The single most telling exam metric for this small primary is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2, which stood at 38% in the 2023/24 academic year. That figure places the school well below the Wiltshire local authority average of 58%, and it ranks 142nd out of 201 primary schools in the county. In national terms, the school sits in the bottom 50% of all primaries for this measure, at the 93rd percentile from the bottom. The picture is more mixed when you look at individual subjects: 63% of pupils reached the expected standard in both reading and writing, while 50% did so in maths, and average scores in reading (103) and maths (98) suggest reading is a relative strength.

The Ofsted inspection report from February 2024 awarded Good across every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — all scoring 2 on the four-point scale. This is a notable improvement from the school’s previous graded inspection in 2011, where early years provision was rated Requires Improvement (a score of 2). The consistency of the current Good ratings suggests stable leadership under headteacher Chloe Stobbart, though the academic outcomes data indicates there is work to do in bringing combined attainment up to the local norm. With only 40 pupils on roll against a capacity of 70, the school is operating at just over half its potential size, and 15% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is slightly above the national average for primary schools.

The school offers a strong range of facilities for its size, including a gymnasium, sports hall, ICT suite, music rooms, art studios, a sensory room and a chapel. Sports on offer include swimming, netball, cricket, gymnastics, tennis, rounders and athletics, and there are clubs for art, science and drama. The school’s SEND provisions cover social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, and autistic spectrum disorder, which is a broad offering for a small primary. For the 2025/26 intake, the school was oversubscribed: it received 9 applications for 5 places, with 4 first-preference offers made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.8. This suggests that despite the below-average KS2 results, the school is popular with local families, likely drawn by its Church of England character, small class sizes and the range of facilities and pastoral support on offer.

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