South Farnborough Junior School

South Farnborough Junior School is a joyful, thriving and highly inclusive school where pupils achieve highly. Inspectors found excellent behaviour and exceptional personal development, with pupils taking responsibility for school life, showing respect and participating in a rich range of opportunities. The school’s inclusive culture helps pupils with SEND, including those in its resourced provision, to flourish, and reading is a central strength of the curriculum. Leadership, governance and staff support are strong, attendance is good and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main area for improvement is the feedback pupils receive. It is not always timely or precise, so misconceptions are not routinely addressed and pupils do not always move on with their learning as securely as they could across all subjects. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic and its first section 5 inspection since 2014, when it was judged outstanding and then exempt from routine inspection. Since September 2024, schools inspected under this framework do not receive an overall effectiveness grade.

Strengths

• Pupils achieve highly across a broad and ambitious curriculum.
• Behaviour is excellent, with calm, purposeful and joyous classrooms.
• Personal development is exceptional and develops pupils’ character strongly.
• The school is highly inclusive and pupils with SEND flourish, including those in the resourced provision.
• Reading is a central strength, with expert phonics support and a rich range of texts.
• Pupils apply mathematical skills accurately and become skilful, ambitious writers by Year 6.
• Attendance and punctuality are strong, with very low absence rates.
• Pupils benefit from a rich offer of clubs, trips, visitors and leadership roles.
• Leaders, governors and staff work effectively together, and staff feel well supported.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• Feedback to pupils is not always timely or precise, so misconceptions are not routinely addressed and pupils do not always move on securely.

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 South Farnborough Junior School attended 96.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 2.5% 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, 0.8% of pupils at South Farnborough 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 South Farnborough Junior School had 23.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 14.0% 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, 11.3% of pupils at South Farnborough Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.5% 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 South Farnborough Junior School received £6,610 and spent £6,591 for each of its 399 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £106,000 (£266 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 South Farnborough Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for South Farnborough Junior School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was South Farnborough Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

South Farnborough Junior School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does South Farnborough Junior School have?

South Farnborough Junior School has 399 pupils on roll.

What age range does South Farnborough Junior School cover?

South Farnborough Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is South Farnborough Junior School?

South Farnborough Junior School is at Cunnington Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 6PL.