Monkton Park Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Chippenham, Wiltshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.620 miles
Published by Wiltshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
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Monkton Park Primary School is a primary school in Chippenham, Wiltshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 April 2025. Wiltshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Monkton Park Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 1.620 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 1.620 miles away, the 51st shortest of 192 Wiltshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- 11.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Wiltshire.
- Reception 2026 had 31 first-choice applications for 33 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Wiltshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Sadlers Mead, Chippenham, SN15 3PN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wiltshire
- Pupils on roll
- 252 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 April 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s vision, ‘grow and learn together’, is at the core of Monkton Park Primary School.”
- “Pupils and staff are proud members of this community.”
- “Staff build positive relationships with pupils and their families.”
To improve
- “However, in a few areas, the school’s approach for checking if pupils have learned and remembered the important subject content are not as secure.”
- “This means that some pupils do not build knowledge sequentially and there are gaps in what they know and remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 61% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 33 offers in total, 31 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Wiltshire.
- Charter Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ivy Lane Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kings Lodge Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Redland Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Frogwell Primary School 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Academy 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published