Harewood Junior School

Harewood Junior School continues to demonstrate good educational standards and a positive environment for its pupils. Students express pride in their school, actively participate in various activities, and benefit from a broad, ambitious curriculum that emphasizes reading and mathematics. There is a notable focus on catering to the needs of all students, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring they achieve high outcomes. The school also fosters a strong sense of community and wellbeing, evidenced by effective support mechanisms and extracurricular opportunities.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and proud of their school.
• The school has high ambitions for pupils' readiness for future education.
• Pupils achieve highly in published outcomes, including SEND and disadvantaged pupils.
• A broad and ambitious curriculum is in place, especially for reading and mathematics.
• Strong pastoral support for pupils' mental and physical health.
• The school council actively contributes to school resources.
• Parents and the community are closely involved with the school.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment criteria in some foundation subjects are too broad.
• Strategies to check pupil understanding lack precision, impacting timely identification of misconceptions.

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 Harewood Junior School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.4% 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, 1.1% of pupils at Harewood 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 Harewood Junior School had 22.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.1% 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, 20.8% of pupils at Harewood Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% 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 Harewood Junior School received £5,458 and spent £6,381 for each of its 356 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £235,000 (£660 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 Harewood Junior School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Harewood Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Harewood Junior School was last inspected in September 2024.

How many pupils does Harewood Junior School have?

Harewood Junior School has 356 pupils on roll.

What age range does Harewood Junior School cover?

Harewood Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 81% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Harewood Junior School?

Harewood Junior School is at Harewood Close, Tuffley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 0SS.