Marden Vale CofE Academy
Primary · Calne · SN11 9BD
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 19 September 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
146 pupils · 55% of 266 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 56.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 8.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 28.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 19.2% of pupils
- URN
- 141988
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.93 first-choice applications per place14 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
25 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)
63% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 37% 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, academy 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
- 17 October 2024: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 19 September 2023: Requires improvement
- 10 June 2021: Requires improvement
- 3 February 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 4
- 28 January 2020: Schools into Special Measures Visit 3
- 19 September 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 27 March 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 21 June 2018: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.