Westfield Junior School

Westfield Junior School is a welcoming, inclusive school where pupils feel safe, behave well and achieve strongly. Inspectors found the school to be good across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This is a marked improvement from the previous inspection, when the school was judged to require improvement, and leaders have transformed provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, including through the specialist speech, language and communication unit, The Meadows.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe, supported and valued by staff
• Pupils behave well, are polite and have positive attitudes to learning
• The curriculum is ambitious and clearly sequenced across subjects
• Reading is prioritised, with effective support for pupils who struggle
• Provision for pupils with SEND is strong and has been transformed
• The Meadows specialist unit provides high-quality support for speech, language and communication needs
• Personal development is a strength, including PSHE, equality and diversity
• Attendance is high and the school responds swiftly to absence
• Staff enjoy working at the school and leaders consider their workload
• Leadership is strong at all levels, with effective governor and local authority support
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Writing tasks are not always well matched to pupils' needs
• Some pupils, particularly the lowest attainers, do not master spelling, handwriting and sentence formation quickly enough
• Staff do not always check pupils' understanding closely enough during lessons
• Pupils sometimes repeat the same errors because misconceptions are not addressed swiftly
• Staff occasionally move pupils on to new learning before gaps in knowledge are filled

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 Westfield Junior School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.1% 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 Westfield 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 Westfield Junior School had 24.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.6% 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, 7.8% of pupils at Westfield Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has a SEN unit with 23 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 Westfield Junior School received £7,345 and spent £7,173 for each of its 357 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £883,000 (£2,474 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 Westfield Junior School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Westfield Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Westfield Junior School was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Westfield Junior School have?

Westfield Junior School has 357 pupils on roll.

What age range does Westfield Junior School cover?

Westfield Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Westfield Junior School?

Westfield Junior School is at Westfield Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0LT.