Great Moor Junior School

Great Moor Junior School is a happy, inclusive junior school where pupils attend well, behave extremely well and benefit from a broad personal development offer. Inspectors found attendance and behaviour and personal development and wellbeing to be strong, with pupils respectful, confident and well prepared for life beyond school. Safeguarding standards are met. The school has 311 pupils, free school meal eligibility is below the national average and the local area is well below average for deprivation. It is not a special school, and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are included and supported well.

Strengths

• Attendance is consistently above the national average and persistent absence is low.
• Pupils behave extremely well and have highly positive attitudes to learning.
• Personal development is strong, with pupils confident, respectful and well prepared for life beyond school.
• The school provides an extensive range of clubs, trips and leadership roles that all pupils can access.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils are identified early and supported effectively.
• Most pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, achieve in line with or above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Leadership and governance are effective, ambitious and well informed about the school.
• Staff feel valued and are well supported with wellbeing, workload and professional development.
• Safeguarding standards are met.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils have gaps in handwriting and spelling that prevent them from writing confidently.
• Teachers do not consistently pick up and correct pupils' spelling and handwriting errors.
• Knowledge and links across some subjects are not consistently detailed.
• Pupils are not always enabled to apply and connect their knowledge independently across the curriculum.

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 Great Moor Junior School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.7% 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, 0.6% of pupils at Great Moor 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 Great Moor Junior School had 24.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 7.0% 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, 14.5% of pupils at Great Moor Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% 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 Great Moor Junior School received £6,524 and spent £6,579 for each of its 311 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £124,000 (£399 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 Great Moor Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Great Moor Junior School is Expected standard, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was Great Moor Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Great Moor Junior School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does Great Moor Junior School have?

Great Moor Junior School has 311 pupils on roll.

What age range does Great Moor Junior School cover?

Great Moor Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 83% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Great Moor Junior School?

Great Moor Junior School is at Great Moor Junior School, Southwood Road, Great Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, SK2 7DG.