Manor Junior School

Manor Junior School is a warm, caring and inclusive school where relationships between adults and pupils are strong and pupils feel safe and valued. Inspectors found good quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This was the school's first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic; it is a larger-than-average junior school with a specially resourced provision for pupils with hearing impairment. The curriculum is ambitious and enriched by visits and reading, and teachers typically deliver it well. Phonics and mathematics are particular strengths because staff check learning robustly and support pupils who fall behind; reading is prioritised and pupils develop a love of books. Pupils with SEND are included well, and all pupils benefit from British Sign Language. Behaviour is positive, attendance is regular, and pupils have many opportunities through residentials, school council and clubs, with disadvantaged pupils benefiting from targeted activities. Safeguarding is effective and leaders are well supported by governors. The main areas for improvement are assessment in some foundation subjects, where systems for checking what pupils know and remember are not well embedded, so gaps can remain, and occasional activity choices that do not help pupils learn the intended curriculum as effectively as possible. The school has already improved teaching in response to historically weaker national test outcomes, but it needs to make curriculum implementation and assessment consistently strong across all subjects.

Strengths

• Warm, caring and inclusive culture with strong adult-pupil relationships
• Pupils feel safe, supported and a strong sense of belonging
• Positive behaviour underpinned by the Ready, Respectful, Safe and Kind rules
• Ambitious and enriching curriculum suited to pupils' needs
• Strong phonics and reading teaching, including extra support for pupils who fall behind
• Robust checking of learning in mathematics and phonics
• Effective identification and inclusion of pupils with SEND
• Specially resourced hearing impairment provision with whole-school British Sign Language
• Wide range of personal development opportunities, including residential visits and clubs
• Targeted extracurricular support for disadvantaged pupils
• Effective safeguarding arrangements
• Supportive leadership with appropriate governor challenge

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment systems in some foundation subjects are not well embedded, so gaps in pupils' knowledge can remain unchecked
• Occasional activity choices do not help pupils learn the intended curriculum as effectively as possible
• A small proportion of pupils are not learning as well as they could because curriculum implementation is not consistently strong across all subjects
• Historically, pupils have not always achieved well in national tests, although teaching has been improved in response

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 Manor Junior School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.3% 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, 3.0% of pupils at Manor 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 Manor Junior School had 18.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.7% 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, 18.9% of pupils at Manor Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 2 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 Manor Junior School received £8,575 and spent £8,244 for each of its 286 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £305,000 (£1,066 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 Manor Junior School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Manor Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Manor Junior School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Manor Junior School have?

Manor Junior School has 286 pupils on roll.

What age range does Manor Junior School cover?

Manor Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 52% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Manor Junior School?

Manor Junior School is at Fernhill Road, Cove, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 9DX.