Westlea Primary School, Swindon
Westlea Primary School is a primary school for pupils aged 2 to 11 in Swindon, part of Brunel Academies Trust. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in June 2023. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 59th-highest of the 65 schools in Swindon with published results, and 13,056th of 14,452 across England. It was full in 2025, at 129% of capacity.
- SATs results
- Below England average
- Ofsted
- Good (2023)
- Demand
- Oversubscribed
- Attendance
- Below England average
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 75 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Swindon (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 1 Nov 2026
Westlea Primary School in detail
Results
In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils at Westlea Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 61% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 73% in Swindon and 77% and 75% across England.
Results fell from 66% in reading and 66% in maths in 2024.
Getting a place at Westlea Primary School
For September 2026 entry, 31 families put Westlea Primary School as their first choice and 75 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. That is slightly more first choices than places. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.
Admissions history and your chances at Westlea Primary School
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Westlea Primary School are Shaw Ridge Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 89% reading, 79% maths); Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery School (0.5 miles, Good); Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior School (0.5 miles, Good, 65% reading, 65% maths); and Lift Hazelwood (0.7 miles, Good, 80% reading, 97% maths).
Each of them had higher 2025 results than Westlea Primary School.
Shaw Ridge Primary SchoolOliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and Nursery SchoolOliver Tomkins Church of England Junior SchoolLift Hazelwood
The trust
Westlea Primary School is one of 8 schools run by Brunel Academies Trust, an academy trust.
Who goes there
29.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
The largest ethnic groups are White British (63%), Asian (14%) and Mixed (7%).
In 2026, 46 pupils (15.9%) received SEN support and 47 (16.3%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.
Westlea Primary School has a resourced provision and a SEN unit (30 places, 30 pupils on roll) for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and moderate learning difficulties.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Swindon Rail Station, about 1.7 miles away in a straight line.
9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Stonefield Close (s-bound), 240 metres away.
Suspensions and exclusions
Westlea Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Westlea Primary School are Lydiard Park Academy (1 mile), The Deanery CofE Academy (1.3 miles) and UTC Swindon (1.3 miles).
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); DfE exclusions statistics
Location
Our estimate from how close the nearest similar schools are and how oversubscribed the council's schools are. It is not a published boundary.
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 years agoOverall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
Inclusivity is at the very core of Westlea Primary School. Everyone is welcome here. Leaders have created a safe and happy place to learn. Pupils are highly respectful and there is a strong culture of celebrating diversity. They say staff encourage and support them.
Leaders have constructed a broad and balanced curriculum. They have high expectations for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Pupils work hard in lessons and have positive attitudes towards their learning.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
Leaders, governors and trust leaders place a sharp focus on curriculum planning and sequencing. The curriculum states the precise knowledge they want pupils to know. Leaders have thought about how to make the sequence of learning clear to pupils and use a 'prior, now and next' approach. As a result, pupils remember important information. In mathematics, for example, pupils used their knowledge of shape to identify three-dimensional shapes from nets.
In many subjects, learning builds on children's starting points in early years. However, this is not the case in all subjects. Some wider curriculum subject leaders are not clear about the knowledge learned in early years. This means curriculum thinking does not build from the early years in all subjects.
From Ofsted's June 2023 inspection report: the opening paragraphs of each section, quoted word for word. Read the full report Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted Insights
Ofsted rated this school Good at its June 2023 inspection.
Rated Good for
Quality of education, Behaviour & attitudes, Personal development, Leadership & management, Early years.
At a Glance
22.5%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
Resourced provision and SEN unit: SpLD, Vision, Other +7
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 66% to 57% (2024 to 2025). Maths has declined from 66% to 61% (2024 to 2025). Writing has declined from 68% to 61% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
23.7
Avg class size
30.0
Infant (KS1)
30.0
KS2
9
Total classes
2 classes with more than 30 pupils
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Keep up with Westlea Primary School
Before and after school care
Westlea Primary School is on the Department for Education's free breakfast clubs programme (list updated July 2026), which pays for a free breakfast club for pupils before school. Source: Free breakfast clubs: schools on the programme, Department for Education Free breakfast clubs in Swindon
Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near Westlea Primary School.
- Brunel Short BreaksAt the school · Not yet graded
- Revolution Performing Arts - Shaw Ridge School450m away · Not yet graded
- The Big Adventure Club Ltd ( Oliver Tomkins School)850m away · Not yet graded
- Revolution Performing Arts - Oliver Tomkins850m away · Not yet graded
Nurseries
Brunel Short Breaks is at Westlea Primary School.
The nearest nurseries and pre-schools to Westlea Primary School, with their latest published grades:
- Shine Bright Nursery - Day nursery, 0.5 milesOfsted, 28 January 2025: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Jellytots Pre-School - Pre-school, 0.7 milesOfsted, 23 March 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Mini Steamers Childcare - Day nursery, 0.8 milesOfsted report card, 27 March 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas; safeguarding standards met
- Swindon Early Years Centre - Pre-school, 0.8 milesOfsted, 10 October 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
- Greendown Playgroup - Day nursery, 1.0 milesOfsted, 19 April 2023: Good overall; safeguarding is effective
Term dates
Westlea Primary School is an academy, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see Swindon's term dates for its community schools.
Getting There
Bus Stops
Free school transport
Check free transport to Westlea Primary School from your postcode →
You apply to the council where you live. Westlea Primary School is in Swindon; for families living there:
- Swindon's school travel policy: School travel support
- How to apply: Apply for school travel support
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 28
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 5
- Children hurt
- 5
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 28 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 23 slight.
5 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on a bicycle and 4 in a vehicle or otherwise.
2 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Swindon is 15.5 (the median across 92 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight are DfT estimates (severity adjustment). Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
Commute and house prices
Your chances of a place at Westlea Primary School
Will you get a place at Westlea Primary School?
For 2026 entry it had 31 first choices for 30 places. The report sets your home postcode against these figures.
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
129%
Over capacity
271 pupils
210 places
61 pupils over capacity in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Across Swindon council
Places available
3,059
Applications
2,416
Got 1st preference
95.6%
Got preferred school
99.4%
All primary applications across Swindon council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: Oversubscribed
Future places in the local planning area
DfE estimates the West Swindon Primary planning area (Swindon) will have 249 spare primary places in 2027/28.
Source: Department for Education, School capacity: Academic year 2024/25 (published 19 March 2026), estimates of future school place demand by planning area. Council pupil forecasts against reported places, counting places councils and DfE plan to add or remove; rounded to whole places. Explore Education Statistics
Inspection History(5)
Ungraded inspection: The school remains Good, but Ofsted raised concerns; its next inspection will be a full graded one.
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
46
SEN Support
47
EHC Plans
32.2%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Westlea Primary School has a resourced provision and a SEN unit (30 places, 30 pupils on roll) for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and moderate learning difficulties.
Source: GIAS, Department for Education.
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
289
Total Pupils
141
Boys
148
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
16
Teachers
18.1:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£51,217
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£5,761
Per pupil
£1745k
Total funding
£118k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
8.7%
Overall absence
25.0%
Persistent absence
292
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Westlea Primary School
Questions parents ask about Westlea Primary School
What are SATs results like at Westlea Primary School?
Of the pupils at Westlea Primary School who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 57% reached the expected standard in reading and 61% did so in maths.
What is Westlea Primary School's Ofsted rating?
Westlea Primary School was rated Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection in June 2023.
Is it hard to get a place at Westlea Primary School?
Westlea Primary School was full in 2025, at 129% of its 210 places.
How big are the classes at Westlea Primary School?
Classes at Westlea Primary School average 23.7 pupils (2025/26). 2 classes have more than 30 pupils.
How many pupils go to Westlea Primary School?
Westlea Primary School has around 289 pupils on roll. 23% are eligible for free school meals.
Does Westlea Primary School have specialist SEN provision?
Westlea Primary School has a resourced provision and a SEN unit (30 places, 30 pupils on roll) for specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, visual impairment, other difficulties or disabilities, hearing impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability and moderate learning difficulties.
What is attendance like at Westlea Primary School?
8.7% of sessions were missed at Westlea Primary School in 2024/25. 25% of pupils were persistently absent.
Does Westlea Primary School have a breakfast club or after-school club?
Westlea Primary School is on the Department for Education's free breakfast clubs programme (list updated July 2026). Ofsted's childcare register lists an out-of-school club at the school: Brunel Short Breaks (registered, not yet graded). There are 3 more within a kilometre.
How many road collisions happen near Westlea Primary School?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 28 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 5 serious and 23 slight. 5 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 1 on a bicycle and 4 in a vehicle or otherwise. 2 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Swindon is 15.5 (the median across 92 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Westlea Primary School?
Westlea Primary School is at Langstone Way, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 7BT.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)