St Laurence School A GSG School
- St Laurence School
Ashley Road
Bradford-on-Avon
Wiltshire
BA15 1DZ - Head: Tim Farrer
- T 01225 309500
- F 01225 309572
- E admin@st-laurence.com
- W st-laurence.com/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Wiltshire
- Pupils: 1,393; sixth formers: 257
- Religion: Church of England/Christian
- Open days: See website
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
- 1 Short inspection 7th December 2022
- 2 Full inspection 7th February 2013
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Every parent and student we spoke to bigged up the vertical tutor groups. ‘Adds a real sense of community and gives you a friendly face further up the school.’ Tutors have a more meaningful role here than we see at many schools – ‘they really know the kids and celebrate their strengths,’ according to one parent. Head has introduced peer mentoring – ‘really powerful,’ felt a student. The Wiltshire Music Centre is based on school grounds and these lucky students get daytime use of its superb facilities – ‘the finest acoustics outside London,’ apparently. A third of…
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2021, Tim Farrer (50s), previously head of Shaftesbury School. State educated in Windsor where he grew up. A brief spell in the City followed a finance degree (Bournemouth) but he swiftly switched to teacher training (Reading) when he found he ‘wasn’t making any difference at all.’ Cut teeth in Slough, teaching English and drama (later becoming head of department) in a mixed comprehensive Catholic school. Next up was St Andrew’s in Surrey as head of faculty, then St Peter’s School in Bournemouth where he led the school’s specialist status before moving to Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne as sole deputy head. He brings with him his border terrier, George; the pair live in a village 10 minutes away next to and opposite school families - ‘when you lead a rural school, it’s important...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| Heywood Prep | 2023 | 1 |
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