Wildground Junior School

Wildground Junior School is demonstrating significant improvement since its last inspection, reflecting a culture of high expectations and ambition for all students. The school excels in fostering an inclusive environment, ensuring that all pupils, especially those with special educational needs, are well-supported and achieve highly. The positive attitudes towards learning are evident, with pupils feeling safe, happy, and well-prepared for their future educational journeys. There is a strong emphasis on personal development through a wide range of extracurricular activities and community involvement.

Strengths

• Consistently high achievement in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Exceptional inclusivity with effective support for pupils with SEND.
• Strong leadership and governance.
• Robust processes for identifying and supporting individual pupil needs.
• Ambitious and creative curriculum that engages pupils' interests.
• High standards of behaviour and positive relationships among pupils and staff.

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 Wildground Junior School attended 94.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.9% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Wildground 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 Wildground Junior School had 21.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 22.2% 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, 20.3% of pupils at Wildground Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 17.8% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 20 pupils.

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 Wildground Junior School received £8,055 and spent £7,380 for each of its 197 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £624,000 (£3,168 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 Wildground Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wildground Junior School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Wildground Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wildground Junior School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Wildground Junior School have?

Wildground Junior School has 197 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wildground Junior School cover?

Wildground Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wildground Junior School?

Wildground Junior School is at Armitage Avenue, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 4LG.