Salisbury & Wilton

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).

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Schools in this cluster

Bemerton St John Church of England Primary
Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School
Broad Chalke CofE Primary School
Dinton CofE Primary School
Exeter House Special School
Greentrees Primary School
Harnham Church of England Controlled Junior School
Harnham Infants' School
Old Sarum Primary School
Pembroke Park Primary School
Salisbury Sixth Form College
Salisbury, Manor Fields Primary School
Sarum Academy
Sarum St Paul's CofE (VA) Primary School
South Wilts Grammar School
St Mark's CofE Junior School, Salisbury
St Martin's CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Porton
St Osmund's Catholic Primary School, Salisbury
St. Peter's CE Primary Academy
Stratford-sub-Castle Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Wilton CofE Primary School
Woodlands Primary School
Wyndham Park Infants' School