Mere School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Warminster, Wiltshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
16.471 miles
Published by Wiltshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Mere School is a primary school in Warminster, Wiltshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 9 November 2022. Wiltshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Mere 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 | 16.471 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 16.471 miles away, the 9th longest of 192 Wiltshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 41 first-choice applications for 43 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% 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
- Springfield Road, Mere, Warminster, BA12 6EW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Wiltshire
- Pupils on roll
- 239 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 9 November 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders and staff are ambitious for all pupils.”
- “They have high expectations of what pupils can achieve.”
- “Leaders’ vision, ‘we enjoy, we learn, we achieve’, reflects the pupils’ day-today experience.”
To improve
- “In some wider curriculum subjects, the key knowledge that leaders want pupils to know and remember has not yet been identified.”
- “As a result, pupils do not build their knowledge of the subject well over time.”
- “However, in some subjects the essential knowledge pupils need to know and remember is not clearly identified.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 December 2022 (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) | 77% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 41 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.
- Whitesheet Church of England Primary Academy 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Horningsham Primary School 5.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 5.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Mary's and St John's 6.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Crockerton CofE Primary School 6.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wardour Catholic Primary School 7.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Tisbury 7.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sutton Veny CofE School 7.8 mi Good Last distance published