Widney Junior School

Widney Junior School continues to demonstrate a good overall performance, with a strong sense of community and effective collaboration with parents and carers. Pupils thrive in a supportive environment where their learning is well-structured, particularly in reading and mathematics. The school excels in providing tailored support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring they make significant progress. However, there are areas needing improvement, particularly in ensuring that the curriculum in foundation subjects is carefully sequenced and builds upon previous learning, allowing pupils to make stronger connections in their knowledge retention.

Strengths

• Strong sense of community within the school.
• Effective collaboration with parents and carers.
• Well-planned curriculum covering a wide range of subjects.
• Strong support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
• Creative promotion of reading for pleasure.
• Positive pupil behavior and a calm atmosphere in classrooms.
• Variety of extra-curricular clubs available for pupils.
• High expectations for pupil behavior and motivation.

Areas for Improvement

• In some foundation subjects, new learning is not securely built upon prior knowledge.

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 Widney Junior School attended 96.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.0% 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, 0.3% of pupils at Widney 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 Widney Junior School had 25.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.2% 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, 14.0% of pupils at Widney Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% 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 Widney Junior School received £6,073 and spent £5,855 for each of its 328 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £399,000 (£1,216 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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What is Widney Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Widney Junior School is Good, from an inspection in April 2024.

When was Widney Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Widney Junior School was last inspected in April 2024.

How many pupils does Widney Junior School have?

Widney Junior School has 328 pupils on roll.

What age range does Widney Junior School cover?

Widney Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Widney Junior School?

Widney Junior School is at Clifton Crescent, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3LQ.