Maidenbower Junior School

Maidenbower Junior School continues to demonstrate good performance in providing an inclusive and supportive learning environment. Leaders and staff foster strong relationships with pupils, ensuring they feel safe and listened to, which contributes to exceptional behavior in classrooms. The school places a strong emphasis on high expectations across all pupil groups, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), by offering effective support tailored to their needs. Despite notable strengths in overall teaching, especially in engagement and curriculum design, the school faces challenges in helping some pupils in the lower years achieve fluency in reading.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between adults and pupils.
• High expectations for all groups of pupils.
• Effective support for pupils with SEND.
• Pupils behave exceptionally well in lessons.
• A broad curriculum that engages pupils.
• Pupils enjoy taking on roles of responsibility.
• A strong emphasis on professional development and staff well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• Support for pupils who are still learning to read is not fully effective.

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 Maidenbower Junior School attended 95.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.7% 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, 1.4% of pupils at Maidenbower 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 Maidenbower Junior School had 19.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.5% 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, 18.1% of pupils at Maidenbower Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.0% 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 Maidenbower Junior School received £6,875 and spent £7,264 for each of its 559 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £9,000 (£16 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 Maidenbower Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Maidenbower Junior School is Good, from an inspection in December 2022.

When was Maidenbower Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Maidenbower Junior School was last inspected in December 2022.

How many pupils does Maidenbower Junior School have?

Maidenbower Junior School has 559 pupils on roll.

What age range does Maidenbower Junior School cover?

Maidenbower Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 63% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Maidenbower Junior School?

Maidenbower Junior School is at Harvest Road, Maidenbower, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 7RA.