Greengate Junior School

Greengate Junior School is performing well overall, demonstrating a strong standard of education. The school has a strong focus on closing knowledge gaps for pupils, particularly those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring they achieve broadly in line with national averages by the end of key stage 2. The inclusive environment created by the staff promotes a sense of safety and well-being among pupils, contributing to high attendance rates and good behaviour. Disadvantaged pupils perform particularly well, exceeding national averages in various subjects. The school is part of the Central Barrow Schools Federation and has effective collaboratives with parents and external agencies to enhance educational outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve broadly in line with national averages for reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve particularly well.
• A calm and nurturing environment is created where pupils feel safe and happy.
• Leaders have a strong understanding of the school context and actively engage with the community.
• Staff model school values effectively and have secure subject knowledge.
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities access an ambitious curriculum and achieve well.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils take longer to secure key knowledge in mathematics.
• Activities do not always focus sharply on building pupils' depth of knowledge.
• The effectiveness of leaders' checks on the curriculum could be strengthened.

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 Greengate Junior School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.1% 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, 1.7% of pupils at Greengate 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 Greengate Junior School had 12.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 17.4% of pupils at Greengate Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 18.6% 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 Greengate Junior School received £12,024 and spent £12,202 for each of its 161 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £117,000 (-£727 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 Greengate Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Greengate Junior School is Expected standard, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Greengate Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Greengate Junior School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Greengate Junior School have?

Greengate Junior School has 161 pupils on roll.

What age range does Greengate Junior School cover?

Greengate Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

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

Where is Greengate Junior School?

Greengate Junior School is at Greengate Street, Greengate Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 1BG.