The Hermitage Junior School

The Hermitage School is rated as a good school, continuing to provide an effective educational experience for its pupils. The school has a supportive environment where pupils feel happy, safe, and included. With an ambitious and engaging curriculum, the school is successfully updating its resources to ensure all students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), are well supported in their learning. Pupils are achieving well thanks to targeted interventions, and there is a strong emphasis on their personal development through various extracurricular activities.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy school and demonstrate positive attitudes towards learning.
• There is effective support for pupils with SEND and disadvantaged backgrounds.
• The curriculum is ambitious and engaging, with a focus on real-world experiences.
• Pupils' personal development is strong, providing leadership opportunities.
• Safeguarding measures are effective, ensuring a safe environment for all.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils at the earliest stages of learning to read do not receive effective support, impacting their phonics development.
• Teachers occasionally do not identify gaps in pupils' knowledge, which can hinder learning.

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 The Hermitage Junior School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.7% 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, 5.6% of pupils at The Hermitage Junior School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 2 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 The Hermitage Junior School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 28.7% 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, 13.6% of pupils at The Hermitage Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 13.3% 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 The Hermitage Junior School received £7,215 and spent £7,592 for each of its 304 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £297,000 (£977 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of The Swan Trust, income was £7,049 and spending £7,479 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 Woking · Surrey local authority: places and applications

The Hermitage Junior School is part of The Swan Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• The Hermitage Infant School Woking
• St John's Primary School Woking
• Knaphill Infant School and Nursery Woking
• Knaphill Junior School Woking
• Beaufort Primary School Woking
• Goldsworth Primary School Woking
• Barnsbury Primary School and Nursery Woking
• The Horsell Village School Woking
• Kingfield Primary School Woking

What is The Hermitage Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for The Hermitage Junior School is Good, from an inspection in September 2024.

When was The Hermitage Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

The Hermitage Junior School was last inspected in September 2024.

How many pupils does The Hermitage Junior School have?

The Hermitage Junior School has 294 pupils on roll.

What age range does The Hermitage Junior School cover?

The Hermitage Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

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

Where is The Hermitage Junior School?

The Hermitage Junior School is at Oakwood Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey, GU21 8UU.