Ferndale Primary School & Nursery

 

Contact Details

Address:
 Wiltshire Avenue
 Wiltshire Avenue
 Swindon
 Wiltshire SN2 1NX
Telephone: 01793 332425

School Type

Phase: Primary (ages 2-11)
Type: Converter Academy
Religious Denomination: None
Admissions Policy: Non-selective
Established: 2016
History: This school arose from Ferndale Primary School & Nursery
Trust: The Blue Kite Academy Trust
Sponsor: The Blue Kite Academy Trust

Staff and Pupils

Headteacher: Miss Elizabeth Horrobin (since May 2025)
Previous Headteacher: Beccy Nolan
Numbers of Teachers / Assistants*: 18.15 / 13.47
Non-teaching Staff*: 27.18
Number of pupils: 444
Pupils Per Teacher: 24.5
Sex: Mixed (51% boys / 49% girls)
Eligible for free school meals (FSM): 16.30% (low)
FSM pupils at 10 nearest schools†: 23.5%
Local child deprivation rate: 15.6% (2km radius)
Proportion of ethnic minority pupils: 50.6%
Ethnic minority pupils at 10 nearest schools†: 61.5%
Distance to 10th nearest school†: 1.9km
* Full-time equivalents (FTEs)
† Schools of the same phase (primary or secondary) for which data are available

Location and Administration

Region: South West
Authority: Swindon
Constituency: North Swindon
Electoral Ward: Rodbourne Cheney
School Number: 8663466

Inspections and Reports

Ofsted Report: 10th July 2024 (view record)
Ofsted Rating: Good

External Links

DfE Record: View record
School Performance Table: View record
The Schools Guide: School indicators | Staff indicators
 
 

Nearby Schools

  1. EOTAS Swindon (0.1km) show on map
  2. St Mary's Catholic Primary School (0.3km) show on map
  3. Swindon Academy (0.9km) show on map
  4. Gorse Hill Primary School (1.2km) show on map
  5. UTC Swindon (1.2km) show on map
  6. Even Swindon Primary School (1.3km) show on map
  7. Nova Hreod Academy (1.3km) show on map
  8. Compass Community School Wheatley Park (1.4km) show on map
  9. Moredon Primary School (1.5km) show on map
  10. Rodbourne Cheney Primary School (1.5km) show on map
  11. Crowdys Hill School (1.7km) show on map
  12. Greenmeadow Primary School (1.7km) show on map
  13. Robert Le Kyng Primary School (1.7km) show on map
  14. Holy Rood Catholic Primary School (1.8km) show on map
  15. Drove Primary School (1.9km) show on map
  16. Holy Cross Catholic Primary School (1.9km) show on map
  17. Seven Fields Primary School (2.1km) show on map
  18. Connex (2.1km) show on map
  19. St Joseph's Catholic College (2.1km) show on map
  20. King William Street Church of England Primary... (2.2km) show on map
  21. Haydon Wick Primary School (2.3km) show on map
  22. Lainesmead Primary School and Nursery (2.4km) show on map
  23. Beechcroft Infant School (2.4km) show on map
  24. Mountford Manor Primary School (2.5km) show on map
  25. Westlea Primary School (2.6km) show on map
  26. St Luke's Academy (2.6km) show on map
  27. Haydonleigh Primary School (2.6km) show on map
  28. Catherine Wayte Primary School (2.6km) show on map
  29. Shaw Ridge Primary School (2.6km) show on map
  30. The Commonweal School (2.6km) show on map
  31. Lethbridge Primary School (2.7km) show on map
  32. Lawn Manor Academy (2.8km) show on map
  33. New College Swindon (2.9km) show on map
  34. Brook Field Primary School (2.9km) show on map
  35. Peatmoor Community Primary School (2.9km) show on map
  36. St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Swindon (2.9km) show on map
  37. Ruskin Junior School (3.0km) show on map
  38. Lift Hazelwood (3.0km) show on map
  39. Abbey Meads Community Primary School (3.1km) show on map
  40. The Croft Primary School (3.1km) show on map
  41. Kingfisher CE Academy (3.2km) show on map
  42. The Deanery CofE Academy (3.2km) show on map
  43. Kingsdown School (3.2km) show on map
  44. Orchid Vale Primary School (3.2km) show on map
  45. East Wichel Primary School & Nursery (3.3km) show on map
  46. Oliver Tomkins Church of England Junior School (3.3km) show on map
  47. Oliver Tomkins Church of England Infant and N... (3.3km) show on map
  48. Ridgeway Farm CofE Academy (3.3km) show on map
  49. Grange Junior School (3.3km) show on map
  50. St Francis CofE Primary School (3.3km) show on map
  51. Grange Infants' School (3.4km) show on map
  52. Bridlewood Primary School (3.5km) show on map
  53. Lawn Primary and Nursery School (3.6km) show on map
  54. Tregoze Primary School (3.6km) show on map
  55. Colebrook Junior School (3.6km) show on map
  56. Colebrook Infant Academy (3.6km) show on map
  57. Holy Family Catholic Primary School (3.6km) show on map
  58. Goddard Park Community Primary School (3.7km) show on map
  59. Nyland School (3.7km) show on map
  60. Nythe Primary School (3.7km) show on map
  61. Oaktree Nursery and Primary School (3.7km) show on map
  62. Abbey Park School (4.0km) show on map
  63. Lydiard Park Academy (4.0km) show on map
  64. Millbrook Primary School (4.0km) show on map
  65. Brimble Hill Special School (4.1km) show on map
  66. Uplands School (4.1km) show on map
  67. Red Oaks Primary School (4.1km) show on map
  68. Covingham Park Primary School (4.1km) show on map
  69. Eldene Nursery and Primary School (4.2km) show on map
  70. Abbey Farm Educate Together Primary (4.2km) show on map
  71. Oakhurst Community Primary School (4.2km) show on map
  72. The Dorcan Academy (4.5km) show on map
  73. Wroughton Junior School (4.6km) show on map
  74. St Leonard's Church of England Primary Academy (4.7km) show on map
  75. Tadpole Farm CofE Primary Academy (4.7km) show on map
  76. The Ridgeway School & Sixth Form College (4.8km) show on map
  77. Churchward School (4.8km) show on map
  78. Great Western Academy (4.8km) show on map
  79. William Morris Primary School (4.8km) show on map
  80. The Chalet School (5.1km) show on map
  81. Liden Academy (5.1km) show on map
  82. South Marston Church of England Primary School (5.3km) show on map
  83. Wroughton Infant School (5.3km) show on map
  84. Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary School (5.4km) show on map
  85. St Mary's Church of England Primary School & ... (5.5km) show on map
  86. Badbury Park Primary School (5.6km) show on map
  87. Bradon Forest School (5.7km) show on map
  88. Maranatha Christian School (6.5km) show on map
  89. Wanborough Primary School (7.1km) show on map
  90. Horizons College (7.5km) show on map
  91. Longleaze Primary School (7.6km) show on map
  92. Chiseldon Primary & Nursery School (7.8km) show on map
  93. St Bartholomew's Primary Academy (7.9km) show on map
  94. Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (8.0km) show on map
  95. Noremarsh Junior School (8.0km) show on map
  96. Southfield Junior School (8.3km) show on map
  97. Highworth Warneford School (8.3km) show on map
  98. Wootton Bassett Infants' School (8.7km) show on map
  99. Westrop Primary & Nursery School (8.7km) show on map
  100. Cricklade Manor Prep (8.7km) show on map
Note: If school locations don't appear on the map then try zooming out

Associated Schools

Related Schools*
Predecessor Schools†
* Other schools occupying the same site, or related to this one through splits or mergers
† Establishments now closed from which this school arose, or with which it has merged

Similar Schools*

  1. Isleworth Town Primary School
  2. Harold Court Primary School, Romford
  3. St Swithun's Catholic Primary School, Southsea
  4. St Teresa's Catholic Primary School, Morden
  5. Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School, Nottingham
  6. St Ursula's Catholic Primary School, Romford
  7. Wingfield Primary School, London
  8. Even Swindon Primary School
  9. Spalding Primary Academy
  10. Henry Cavendish Primary School, London
  11. English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, Reading
  12. Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School, Gravesend
  13. Monkshouse Primary Academy, Spalding
  14. Charles Darwin Primary School, Norwich
  15. Ashmead Primary School, London
  16. Westways Primary School, Sheffield
  17. Beecroft Primary School, Leeds
  18. Our Lady of Muswell Catholic Primary School, London
  19. Alfred Sutton Primary School, Reading
  20. Three Bridges Primary School, Crawley
  21. St Edmund's Catholic Primary School, Bury St Edmunds
  22. Millbrook Primary School, Swindon
  23. Brookfield Primary Academy, Sutton
  24. Immanuel and St Andrew Church of England Primary School, London
  25. Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Richmond
  26. Kader Academy, Middlesbrough
  27. St Winifred's RC Primary School, London
  28. Eliot Bank Primary School, London
  29. Our Lady of Lourdes RC School, London
  30. North Ealing Primary School, London
  31. Highgate Primary School, London
  32. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Uxbridge
  33. St Alban's Catholic Academy, Harlow
  34. St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School, Slough
  35. Alexandra Primary School, Kingston upon Thames
  36. Thoresby Primary School, Kingston-upon-Hull
  37. Holy Trinity Catholic Voluntary Academy, Newark
  38. Howe Dell Primary School, Hatfield
  39. Vaughan Primary School, Harrow
  40. Whiteknights Primary School, Reading
  41. Salusbury Primary School, London
  42. New Marston Primary School, Oxford
  43. The Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School, Northampton
  44. St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School, Milton Keynes
  45. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Sunderland
  46. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, New Malden
  47. Gillespie Primary School, London
  48. St Raphael's Catholic Primary School, Northolt
  49. Pelham Primary School, Bexleyheath
  50. Our Lady of Victories Catholic School, Keighley
  51. Bowes Primary School, London
  52. Fairlop Primary School, Ilford
  53. Julian's School, London
  54. The Langley Heritage Primary, Slough
  55. Leigh Academy Dartford
  56. Sharples Primary School, Bolton
  57. Westbourne Primary School, Sutton
  58. St Agatha's Catholic Primary School, Kingston upon Thames
  59. St Teresa's Catholic (A) Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent
  60. William Patten Primary School, London
  61. The Russell Primary School, Richmond
  62. Kerr Mackie Primary School, Leeds
  63. Nelson Primary School, Twickenham
  64. St Marie's Catholic Primary School, Rugby
  65. Avenue Primary School, Leicester
  66. St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Telford
  67. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Coventry
  68. Manor Primary School, Dagenham
  69. St Edmund's Catholic School, London
  70. Lum Head Primary School, Cheadle
  71. St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe
  72. Dovelands Primary School, Leicester
  73. St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School, Thornton Heath
  74. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Teddington
  75. Tividale Community Primary School, Oldbury
  76. St Felix Roman Catholic Primary School, Haverhill
  77. Castilion Primary School, London
  78. Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School, Potters Bar
  79. Elmridge Primary School, Altrincham
  80. St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, Dunstable
  81. St Stephen's CofE Primary School, London
  82. Moseley Primary School, Coventry
  83. St Nicholas CofE (VA) Primary School and Nursery, Stevenage
  84. Great Ouse Primary Academy, Bedford
  85. St Martin De Porres Catholic Primary School, Luton
  86. Epsom Primary and Nursery School
  87. Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Slough
  88. Alwoodley Primary School, Leeds
  89. East Wichel Primary School & Nursery, Swindon
  90. Dixons Marchbank Primary, Bradford
  91. Tithe Farm Primary School, Dunstable
  92. Poplar Primary School, London
  93. The Winns Primary School, London
  94. Marlborough Primary School, Isleworth
  95. Wygate Park Academy, Spalding
  96. St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend
  97. Sandy Lane Primary School, Bracknell
  98. Larmenier & Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, London
  99. Dartford Bridge Community Primary School
  100. Holly Park Primary School, London
* Based on pupil profiles – see About page for details

 | Copyright © 2024 |