Chilmark and Fonthill Bishop Church of England Aided Primary School
Primary · Salisbury · SP3 5AR
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 13 September 2023
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48 pupils · 40% of 119 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 25% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.8% of pupils
- URN
- 126438
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.67 first-choice applications per place9 places offered · 6 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
8 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)
70% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 30% 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
- 13 September 2023: Good
- 11 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 2
- 10 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 12 November 2019: Requires improvement
- 10 May 2017: Requires improvement
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
- Dinton CofE Primary School
- Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Mary's and St John's
- Wardour Catholic Primary School
- Wylye Valley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Broad Chalke CofE Primary School
- Heytesbury Church of England Primary School
- Sutton Veny CofE School