Wood Green Junior School

Wood Green Junior School demonstrates a strong standard of education, with pupils typically achieving well across key subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics. Leaders have established an open culture of safeguarding, ensuring that pupils feel safe and valued. Notably, the school has taken effective measures to improve attendance, engaging proactively with families to ensure that pupils return to regular routines. The curriculum is well-structured, focusing on revisiting and deepening essential knowledge to enhance pupil learning. However, areas such as handwriting and writing fluency present some challenges, impacting the overall quality of pupils' written work.

Strengths

• Strong leadership with a clear understanding of strengths and areas for development.
• A well-structured curriculum that meets pupils' needs.
• Effective monitoring of attendance with targeted support for families.
• Pupils feel safe and valued in a caring school environment.
• Pupils generally behave well and show respect towards peers.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent effectiveness in the teaching of handwriting and writing fluency.
• Occasional misalignment in task design, leading to insufficient challenge for some pupils.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Wood Green Junior School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.6% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Wood Green Junior School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Wood Green Junior School had 23.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 25.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 18.8% of pupils at Wood Green Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Wood Green Junior School received £7,372 and spent £6,980 for each of its 340 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £533,000 (£1,568 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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All schools in Wednesbury · Sandwell local authority: places and applications

Wood Green Junior School is part of Wednesday Learning Community Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Albert Pritchard Infant School Wednesbury
• Old Park Primary School Wednesbury
• Park Hill Primary School Wednesbury
• Moorlands Primary School West Bromwich
• Harvills Hawthorn Primary School West Bromwich

What is Wood Green Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wood Green Junior School is Expected standard, from an inspection in April 2026.

When was Wood Green Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wood Green Junior School was last inspected in April 2026.

How many pupils does Wood Green Junior School have?

Wood Green Junior School has 340 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wood Green Junior School cover?

Wood Green Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are Wood Green Junior School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 60% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wood Green Junior School?

Wood Green Junior School is at Hobs Road, Wednesbury, West Midlands, WS10 9BW.