Wroughton Junior School
Offers reached between 2.71 and 3.7 miles in the last 3 years we hold. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.
Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Swindon Borough Council offer-day figures, 2023 to 2026.
Summary
The key facts, in one place- Inspection
- Standards maintained, February 2025
- Getting in
- Last offer 2.9 mi (2026)
- Results
- 65% expected standard; 6% higher standard
- Size
- 304 pupils; classes of 28
- Run by
- Grove Learning Trust
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 7 to 11 · Mixed
- Expected standard: 65%, against 60% in Swindon.
- Sessions missed: 4.3%, against 4.8% in Swindon.
- Higher standard: 6%, against 8% in Swindon.
- Suspensions per 100 pupils: 0.9, against 0.8 in Swindon.
At a glance
Against Swindon and EnglandOverview
Getting in
- We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.
- Some places go first to children from named primary schools: see the feeder rules below.
Quality
- Standards maintained
- Reading, writing and maths: expected standard: 65% (England 62%) (county 60%)
- Reading, writing and maths: higher standard: 6% (England 8%) (county 8%)
Daily life
- Absence: 4.3% of sessions missed; 10% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 5.3% and 13%
- Suspensions: 1 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 1); 0 permanent exclusions
- Classes average 27.6 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30
- 22.4 pupils for each teacher
- Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 59 m
- 1 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 0 serious)
- Air: nitrogen dioxide 6.5 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.3 (1 km square, background level)
Who runs it
- Grove Learning Trust, with 9 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 February 2022
- Replaced Wroughton Junior School (URN 126245)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Getting in
How far offers reached
How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.Year 3. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →
Offer day, year by year
| Entry | Year | Places | Applications | Offered | Refused | Last distance (miles) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 3 | 2026 | 60 | 76 | — | — | 2.9 |
| Year 3 | 2025 | 60 | 48 | — | — | 3.7 |
| Year 3 | 2024 | 90 | 92 | — | — | 2.71 |
| Year 3 | 2023 | 90 | 74 | — | — | — |
Source: Council offer-day figures: Swindon Borough Council, 2023 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.
Feeder school rules
Linked infant school · Year 3
2. Any child that is attending a feeder school at the time the application is submitted. Wroughton Infant School is a feeder to Wroughton Junior School.
Feeder schools: Wroughton Infant School
Priority at secondary schools
Results
Results
| Measure | This school | England | Council | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths: expected standard | 65% | 62% | 60% | 2024/2025 |
| Reading, writing and maths: higher standard | 6% | 8% | 8% | 2024/2025 |
Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/2025.
League table place
| Table | League rank |
|---|---|
| Primary (key stage 2) | Top 47% (26/56) |
Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.
Inspections
| Date | Kind | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2025 | Ungraded visit | Standards maintained |
Source: Ofsted, 2025.
Daily life
Absence
| Year | Sessions missed | Authorised | Unauthorised | Pupils missing 1 in 10 | Pupils missing 1 in 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 4.3% | 3.5% | 0.8% | 10% | 0.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.9% | 4.1% | 0.8% | 13% | 0.9% |
| 2022/23 | 5.4% | 4.2% | 1.2% | 14% | 0.3% |
| Schools with a similar intake | 5.3% | 13% |
Source: DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25. Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (20-30%), the median of 3218 schools.
Suspensions and exclusions
| Year | Suspensions per 100 pupils | Pupils suspended | Suspensions | Permanent exclusions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 0.9 | 0.6% | 3 | 0 |
| 2023/24 | 2.4 | 1.2% | 8 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 0.6 | 0.6% | 2 | 0 |
| Schools with a similar intake | 1.3 |
Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.
Class sizes and staff
| Measure | Figure | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average class size | 27.6 | 2025/26 |
| Classes over 30 pupils | 0.0% | 2025/26 |
| Pupils for each teacher | 22.4 | November 2025 |
Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.
Stops nearby
| Kind | Nearest (metres, straight line) |
|---|---|
| bus | 59 |
Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.
Road collisions within 500 m
| Year | Collisions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 |
Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 0 serious and 0 fatal in all; 1 involved a pedestrian, 0 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.
Air quality
| Pollutant | Annual mean (µg/m³) | Year |
|---|---|---|
| NO2 | 6.5 | 2024 |
| PM10 | 10.1 | 2024 |
| PM25 | 6.3 | 2024 |
Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.
Pupils
Who goes there
| Measure | Share of pupils | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Eligible for free school meals | 27% | 2025/26 |
| First language other than English | 6.9% | 2025/26 |
| SEN support | 19% | 2025/26 |
| Education, health and care plan | 1.0% | 2025/26 |
| Girls | 48% | 2025/26 |
Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.
Who runs it
Who runs it
- Grove Learning Trust, with 9 schools
- Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 February 2022
- Replaced Wroughton Junior School (URN 126245)
- We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.
Area
Homes in reach of this schoolLook up any home near here: its sales, an open-data valuation, and which schools it keeps in reach.Search homes →Sources
- Council offer-day figures: Swindon Borough Council
- DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
- DfE school performance tables
- DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
- DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
- DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
- DfE, school workforce; school census
- DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
- DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
- DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
- Ofsted
- School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
- How we check these figures: How we know
More in schools in Swindon and the Swindon league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
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