Secondary schools in Salisbury
7 secondary schools in Salisbury, sorted by latest Ofsted grade. Grades come from two inspection systems; each school page states which, and the guide explains the difference. A grade shown with a year, like "Good (2019)", is the last one Ofsted published for that school and sorts below current grades. We don't invent rankings.
Salisbury in figures
For Year 7 places in September 2026, families named the 7 schools in Salisbury first 1,057 times for 1,003 places: 1.05 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Wiltshire authority's 28 schools. 2 of the 7 had more first choices than places.
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
- Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School
- Avon Valley Academy
- Sarum Academy
- South Wilts Grammar School
- The Trafalgar School at Downton
- St Joseph's Catholic School
- Wyvern St Edmund's Academy
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Browse by authority: Wiltshire · compare schools side by side · the map. School data: DfE & Ofsted, Open Government Licence v3.0.