The Stonehenge School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D50
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Amesbury, SP4 7PW
- Distance
- 2.9km away
Avon Valley Academy
Recreation Road, Durrington, Salisbury, SP4 8HH
Local ranking23rd of 27 secondary schools in Wiltshire
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
925
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 1 July 2025. Figures last updated .
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 1 July 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership & management
- Good
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 35.8 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 18.8% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 40.0% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 80
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 86.0%
- Continued in education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 2.0%
- Employment
- 9.0%
- Not sustained
- 12.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 517
- Boys
- 255 (49%)
- Girls
- 262 (51%)
- Capacity
- 925 (56% full)
- SEND
- 17.6%
- FSM Eligible
- 28.1%
- EAL
- 15.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 3.1%
- SEN Support
- 14.5%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.6:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.2
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,977/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 10.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 29.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 72.3%
- Other: 11.6%
- White Other: 3.1%
- Black African: 2.9%
- Black Caribbean: 2.8%
- Black Other: 2.2%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 1.8%
- Asian Other: 1.2%
72.3%
White British
11.6%
Other
3.1%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Recreation Road
Salisbury, South West
Administrative
- URN
- 143005
- UKPRN
- 10057185
- Establishment No.
- 4071
- Trust
- ACORN EDUCATION TRUST
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