Pickering Community Junior School

Pickering Community Junior School continues to perform well, maintaining its status as a good school. The environment is welcoming, and students participate actively in shaping the positive culture of the school. With strong leadership and high expectations, pupils enjoy their lessons and demonstrate good achievements across the curriculum. The school fosters a vibrant community atmosphere where pupils feel valued and respected, contributing significantly to their overall well-being and academic success. While the school excels in many areas, there is a recognition that some students, particularly those with higher abilities in mathematics, are not being sufficiently challenged at the start of lessons. Leaders have identified this and are taking steps to address it, but the improvements need to be fully embedded to maximize learning outcomes for all pupils. Overall, the school has shown a commitment to developing a well-rounded educational experience, including a strong focus on reading and computing, while managing behaviour effectively.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy warm, respectful relationships with staff.
• Leaders have high expectations for all pupils.
• The curriculum is ambitious and well sequenced.
• Reading is integrated into the daily routine for all pupils.
• The computing curriculum prepares pupils well for future education.
• Pupils’ behaviour does not disrupt learning.
• The school fosters a strong sense of community and pupil voice.

Areas for Improvement

• Insufficient challenge for the most able pupils at the start of mathematics lessons.

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 Pickering Community Junior School attended 95.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.4% 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 Pickering 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 Pickering Community Junior School had 23.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.3% 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, 23.9% of pupils at Pickering Community Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.5% 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 Pickering Community Junior School received £6,876 and spent £7,242 for each of its 184 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £71,000 (£386 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 Pickering Community Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Pickering Community Junior School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Pickering Community Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Pickering Community Junior School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Pickering Community Junior School have?

Pickering Community Junior School has 184 pupils on roll.

What age range does Pickering Community Junior School cover?

Pickering Community Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 45% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Pickering Community Junior School?

Pickering Community Junior School is at Middleton Road, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 8AJ.