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Pewsey Vale School

Mixed · ages 11–16 · no sixth formWiltshire, South West · Pewsey SN9 5EWTrust: Acorn Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
330of 535 places
Free school meals
32.6%
Year 11 cohort 2025
Ofsted
Requires improvement, 7 February 2023Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Pewsey Vale School (URN 136849, until 30 November 2024).

What the data says

Pewsey Vale School has no sixth form. Of the 67 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 1% moved to a sixth form college, 64% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 9% went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

As an 11–16 school, Pewsey Vale School is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Wiltshire and England.

Pewsey Vale School
Wiltshire
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasurePewsey Vale SchoolWiltshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort675,123607,348
Any sustained destination88%94%92%
Stayed in education79%88%86%
— school sixth form10%43%34%
— sixth form college1%6%13%
— further education college64%38%37%
— other education3%2%2%
Apprenticeship0%3%3%
Employment9%3%3%
No sustained destination7%4%6%
Destination unknown4%2%3%

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Mathematics5988%8%22%49%
English Language5989%8%20%47%
English Literature5886%14%21%52%
Combined Science5565%4%9%29%
History4141%7%26%32%
Statistics305%3%20%73%
Physical Education2611%0%24%38%
Food Preparation and Nutrition258%0%21%40%
Geography1641%25%25%75%
German135%15%33%69%
Fine Art119%0%28%45%
3D Design52%16%
Physics223%46%
Chemistry223%47%
Biology223%45%

Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEngland
Health Studies10

Other secondary schools in Wiltshire

Abbeyfield School

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90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.7

Devizes School

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80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.3

Hardenhuish School

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91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.5

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.