Charter Primary School
Wood Lane, Chippenham, SN15 3EA
This school is closed (it closed in June 2025).
It was replaced by Charter Primary School. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Flack
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Constituency
- Chippenham
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 357
- Pupils on roll
- 200
- URN
- 126292
- Local authority
- Wiltshire
About this school
Charter Primary School was a community primary school in Chippenham. It taught children aged 4 to 11 and had 200 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Charter Primary School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 29 | 35 | 30 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 45% | 37% | 47% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 3% | 0% | 7% |
| Expected standard in reading | 66% | 63% | 67% |
| Expected standard in maths | 59% | 46% | 70% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 55% | 51% | 70% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 103.0 | 102.0 | 104.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 102.0 | 100.0 | 103.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.30 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -2.40 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -1.10 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Charter Primary School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Wiltshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 45% | 56.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 37% | 56.6% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 47% | 58.2% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 6.1% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 5.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 215 |
| 2023/24 | 217 |
| 2024/25 | 200 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Charter Primary School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 18% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 36% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47% | 6.1% | 26% | 200 | — |
| Charter Primary School | — | — | — | 184 | 0.0 miles |
| Kings Lodge Primary School | — | — | — | 298 | 0.5 miles |
| Monkton Park Primary School | 61% | 4.1% | 13.7% | 252 | 0.6 miles |
| Ivy Lane Primary School | 64% | 5.3% | 11% | 451 | 0.7 miles |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | 50% | 3.7% | 20.1% | 165 | 0.8 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 26%
- English as an additional language
- 7.5%
- Overall absence
- 6.13%
- Persistent absence
- 15.96%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Charter Primary School0.0 miles
Primary · Chippenham
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Kings Lodge Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · Chippenham
-
Monkton Park Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Chippenham
-
Ivy Lane Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Chippenham
-
St Mary's Catholic Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Chippenham
Other schools in Chippenham
- Brinkworth Earl Danby's Church of England Primary Primary
- By Brook Valley CofE Primary School Primary
- Charter Primary School Primary
- Christian Malford CofE Primary School Primary
- Colerne CofE Primary School Primary
- Frogwell Primary School Primary
- Hullavington CofE Primary and Nursery School Primary
- Ivy Lane Primary School Primary
- Kings Lodge Primary School Primary
- Kington St Michael Church of England Primary School Primary
- Lacock Church of England Primary School Primary
- Langley Fitzurse Church of England Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Charter Primary School teach?
- Charter Primary School taught children aged 4 to 11. It was a primary school in Chippenham.
- Has Charter Primary School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Charter Primary School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How many pupils are at Charter Primary School?
- Charter Primary School had 200 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- How have Charter Primary School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 45% in 2022/23 and 47% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Charter Primary School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Charter Primary School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 8 July 2025.