Upminster Junior School

Upminster Junior School is a highly effective school, judged to be operating at a strong standard across every evaluated area: achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. Pupils develop strong foundational knowledge, and outcomes at the end of Year 6 are significantly above national averages. Behaviour is impeccable, attendance is consistently high, and the school's inclusive culture ensures that pupils with SEND and disadvantaged pupils make excellent progress. The curriculum is broad, coherently sequenced and delivered by teachers with excellent subject knowledge.

Strengths

• Outcomes at the end of Year 6 are significantly above national averages, with pupils developing strong foundational knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND and those facing other barriers make excellent progress and achieve ambitious endpoints.
• Attendance rates are high, with robust systems in place to provide swift and personalised support to families.
• Behaviour across the school is impeccable, and classrooms are calm, orderly and purposeful.
• The curriculum is broad, coherently sequenced and effectively delivered by teachers with excellent subject knowledge.
• Inclusion is at the core of the school's work, with rigorous identification of needs and highly effective, swift support.
• Leadership at school and trust level is highly effective, evidence-informed and focused on placing pupils with SEND or barriers first.
• Personal development is exceptional, with a well-designed PSHE curriculum, wide-ranging enrichment and strong pupil leadership opportunities.
• Staff benefit from high-quality professional development, including coaching, and leaders take deliberate steps to manage workload.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective, creating an open and positive culture where pupils feel safe.

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 Upminster Junior School attended 96.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.8% 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, 0.3% of pupils at Upminster 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 Upminster Junior School had 26.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.7% 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, 10.2% of pupils at Upminster Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 2024–25 Upminster Junior School received £6,034 and spent £6,257 for each of its 362 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £182,000 (-£502 per pupil).

Across all 6 schools of Hornchurch Academy Trust, income was £6,883 and spending £6,619 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Havering · Havering local authority: places and applications

Upminster Junior School is part of Hornchurch Academy Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Upminster Infant School Upminster
• Scargill Infant School Rainham. Essex
• Scargill Junior School Rainham
• Whybridge Junior School Rainham
• Shears Green Infant School Gravesend

What is Upminster Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Upminster Junior School is Strong standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Upminster Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Upminster Junior School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Upminster Junior School have?

Upminster Junior School has 364 pupils on roll.

What age range does Upminster Junior School cover?

Upminster Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 88% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Upminster Junior School?

Upminster Junior School is at St Mary's Lane, Upminster, Essex, RM14 3BS.