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Pewsey Vale School

Secondary · Pewsey · SN9 5EW

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Requires improvement

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.

Quality of education: Requires improvementBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: Requires improvementSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 7 February 2023

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At a glance

330 pupils · 62% of 535 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
11–16
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
32.6% of pupils
English as additional language
2.1% of pupils
SEN support
13.6% of pupils
EHC plan
11.2% of pupils
Website
https://pewsey-vale.wilts.sch.uk/
URN
151533

Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026

0.70 first-choice applications per place

56 places offered · 39 first-choice applications · usually has places

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.

GCSE results (2024/2025)

Attainment 8 score

no data

Grade 4 or above in English & maths GCSEs

no data

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

no data

EBacc average point score

no data

Progress 8

no data

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
11.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
29.5%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
17.5
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

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.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
5/10around the middle for England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
4/10more deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher27.6%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications19.3%18.1%
In managerial or professional work29.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways19%18.1%
Residents in very good health44.5%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier53.2%62.3%
Social housing37%17.1%
Privately rented9.5%20.5%
Detached houses24%22.9%
Flats11.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms17.9%21.1%
Households with no car or van17.9%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01031869 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,630 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£320,000125 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£235,000–£399,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (42)£462,500
Semi-detached (28)£310,000
Terraced (35)£280,000
Flat (20)£182,500

Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
0a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
1a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
0a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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