Wardour Catholic Primary School
Primary · Tisbury · SP3 6RF
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 4 February 2020
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95 pupils · 90% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 1.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0% of pupils
- URN
- 126430
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.36 first-choice applications per place14 places offered · 19 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
9 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
96% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 4% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 12 November 2024: Standards maintained
- 4 February 2020: Good
- 12 September 2018: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Tisbury
- Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Ludwell Primary School
- Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Mary's and St John's
- Coombe House School
- Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School
- Chilmark and Fonthill Bishop Church of England Aided Primary School
- Shaftesbury School