Downton

Cluster Coordinator: Louise Jordan


About this cluster

Within Downton Music Cluster there were 14 schools (local authority maintained and academies) in the 2021-21 academic year – 4 secondary and 10 primary schools.  Wyvern College and St Edmunds Girl’s School have joined together as ‘Wyvern St Edmund’s but still have separate DfE numbers for now.

Downton Cluster reaches from the Laverstock area of Salisbury to Wiltshire’s southernmost border with Hampshire.  Most of the cluster schools are in rural parishes and villages, except the three secondary schools in Laverstock.  5 of the primary schools are classed as small schools (fewer than 120 children on roll).

Downton Cluster covers the Southern Wiltshire community area.  Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019 data ranks 8 out of 12 Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in the area in the least 20% for overall deprivation, with the remaining 4 LSOAs in the least 40%.  This indicates that it is one of the least deprived areas in Wiltshire and nationally.

One school in the cluster had higher than the national average of pupils eligible for Free School Meals – Longford Primary School (n=27, 35.5%).   Schools in the cluster have relatively low numbers or proportions of children eligible for Service Pupil Premium.  Schools with the highest numbers or proportions of children eligible for Service Pupil Premium in the cluster are Wyvern College (n=35, 8.1%), St Joseph’s Catholic Secondary (n=41, 7.3%) and St Edmund’s Girl’s School (n=42, 4.8%)

The numbers of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) were notably higher than the national average at St Joseph’s Catholic Secondary (n=111, 19.6% receiving SEN support), Wyvern College (n=96, 22.2% receiving SEN support), and Morgan’s Vale Primary (n=37, 32.2% receiving SEN support).

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Schools in this cluster

Alderbury and West Grimstead Church of England Primary School
Coombe Bissett Church of England Primary School
Downton CofE VA Primary School
Longford CofE (VC) Primary School
Morgan's Vale and Woodfalls Church of England Primary School
Pitton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
St Andrew's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Laverstock
St Edmund's Girls' School
St Joseph's Catholic School
The New Forest Church of England Primary School
The Trafalgar School at Downton
Whiteparish All Saints Church of England Primary School
Winterslow CofE (Aided) Primary School
Wyvern College