Grange Community Junior School

Grange Community Junior School is a strongly performing school where pupils feel safe, trust staff and benefit from warm, respectful relationships. The school has high expectations for all pupils, including those with SEND, and published outcomes show these expectations are being met. Behaviour and personal development are particular strengths: pupils are polite, focused and caring, attendance is excellent, and pupils access a rich range of trips, clubs, societies and leadership roles. The curriculum is well planned, sequenced and ambitious across subjects, and SEND support is strong. Leaders have high ambitions, staff workload and well-being are considered, professional development is well structured, and governors are passionate and effective. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a graded inspection it did not receive an overall effectiveness grade. The main area for improvement is that in some subjects teachers do not check pupils’ prior knowledge effectively, so they do not always know what pupils have secured. The school needs to make these checks consistent so pupils can build on and connect their knowledge over time.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and trust staff, with respectful and warm relationships across the school.
• The curriculum is well planned, sequenced and highly ambitious for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Pupils’ behaviour is excellent; they are polite, respectful and have positive attitudes to learning.
• Personal development is a strength, with pupils taught how to keep safe online and outside school.
• The school provides a wide range of trips, clubs, societies and leadership opportunities for all pupils.
• Attendance is excellent, and leaders’ support for improving individual attendance is highly effective.
• Strong SEND processes and well-planned interventions help pupils with SEND achieve well.
• Leaders have high ambitions, accurately identify next steps and support staff workload and well-being.
• Governors are passionate, challenge leaders and fulfil their statutory duties.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, teachers’ checks on pupils’ learning are not consistently effective.
• Teachers do not always identify whether pupils’ knowledge is secure, which can limit how well pupils build on and connect knowledge over time.

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 Grange Community Junior School attended 95.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.9% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Grange Community 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 Grange Community Junior School had 20.5 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, 20.2% of pupils at Grange Community Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.2% 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 Grange Community Junior School received £7,544 and spent £7,838 for each of its 238 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £50,000 (-£211 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 Grange Community Junior School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Grange Community Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Grange Community Junior School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Grange Community Junior School have?

Grange Community Junior School has 238 pupils on roll.

What age range does Grange Community Junior School cover?

Grange Community Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Grange Community Junior School?

Grange Community Junior School is at Wren Way, Prospect Estate, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 8TA.