Cluster Coordinator: Liv McLennan
About this cluster
Within the Salisbury and Wilton Music Cluster there were 24 schools (local authority maintained and academies) in the 2021-22 academic year – 3 secondary, 15 primary, 2 infant, 2 junior, 1 special school, and 1 Sixth Form College.
The cluster’s schools are mostly in urban areas. 4 of the primary phase schools are in rural villages, with 1 considered a ‘small school’ (fewer than 120 children on roll).
Salisbury is an area of great socio-economic diversity. There are 3 Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) which rank in the highest 20% for overall deprivation nationally, according to Indices of Multiple Deprivation Data 2019. In contrast, 6 LSOAs in Salisbury are ranked in the least deprived 20% nationally. IMD data for Wilton shows that the LSOAs are mostly mid-ranking between the 4th and 8th deciles.
Schools in the cluster with higher than the national average of pupils eligible for Free School Meals are Sarum Academy (n=144, 29.5%), St Martin’s Primary (n=54, 34%), Woodlands Primary (n=102, 48.6%), Wilton Primary (n=53, 32.1%), Pembroke Park Primary (n=78, 29.1%), Old Sarum Primary (n=75, 24.5%) and Exeter House (n=46, 31.3%). Schools with the highest numbers or proportions of children eligible for Service Pupil Premium in the cluster were Exeter House School (n=26, 17.7%) Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar (n=106, 10.1%) and South Wilts Grammar School (n=109, 9.7%), St Nicholas Primary (n=31, 22%) and Old Sarum Primary (n=62, 20.3%).
The numbers of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) were notably higher than the national average at Manor Fields Primary (n=29, 13.2% with an EHCP), Wilton Primary (n=13, 7.9% with an EHCP and n=37, 22.4% receiving SEN support ), Greentrees Primary (n=25, 5.9% with an EHCP), Sarum Academy (n=115, 22% receiving SEN support), St Nicholas’ Primary (n=33, 123.4% receiving SEN support), Woodlands Primary (n=52, 24.8% receiving SEN support), Wyndham Park Infants (n=48, 19% receiving SEN support) and Pembroke Park Primary (n=65, 24.3% receiving SEN support).