King's Academy Gomer

King’s Academy Gomer is a warm and welcoming junior school where pupils enjoy learning and achieve well. Inspectors found an ambitious, expertly taught curriculum, strong reading provision and effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities. Pupils behave exceptionally and their personal development is rich, including community work and thoughtful support for service families. Leadership and governance are strong: school and trust leaders share high expectations, quality assurance is effective and staff feel supported. Safeguarding is effective and pupils feel safe. The school is part of King’s Group Academies, and this was its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. The main area to improve is writing. Teachers do not consistently identify and address misconceptions in grammar and punctuation across the curriculum, so some pupils do not apply these accurately. Leaders have already begun tackling weaker writing outcomes and standards are improving, but consistency remains the next step.

Strengths

• Warm, welcoming school with a friendly atmosphere
• Pupils enjoy learning and achieve well across the curriculum
• Ambitious curriculum taught expertly with clear routines
• Exceptional pupil behaviour and highly respectful attitudes
• Strong support for pupils with SEND woven into the curriculum
• Effective reading culture with swift targeted help
• Rich personal development and community opportunities
• Thoughtful support for pupils from service families
• Effective leadership, governance and trust quality assurance
• Pupils feel safe and safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not routinely identify and support misconceptions in writing across the curriculum
• Some pupils do not apply grammar and punctuation consistently, hindering their achievement

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 King's Academy Gomer attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 3.7% 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, 3.3% of pupils at King's Academy Gomer 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 King's Academy Gomer had 21.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.0% 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, 19.8% of pupils at King's Academy Gomer were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.6% 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 King's Academy Gomer received £6,193 and spent £5,952 for each of its 239 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £425,000 (£1,778 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of King'S Group Academies, income was £7,817 and spending £7,798 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 Gosport · Hampshire local authority: places and applications

King's Academy Gomer is part of King'S Group Academies, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• King's Academy Bay House Gosport
• King's Academy Brune Park Gosport
• King's Academy Rowner Gosport
• King's Academy College Park (Infant) Portsmouth
• King's Academy College Park (Junior) Portsmouth
• King's Academy Northern Parade (Infant) Portsmouth
• King's Academy Northern Parade (Junior) Portsmouth
• King's Academy Lord Wilson Southampton
• King's Academy Easthampstead Park Bracknell
• King's Academy Prospect Reading

What is King's Academy Gomer's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for King's Academy Gomer is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was King's Academy Gomer last inspected by Ofsted?

King's Academy Gomer was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does King's Academy Gomer have?

King's Academy Gomer has 232 pupils on roll.

What age range does King's Academy Gomer cover?

King's Academy Gomer for pupils aged 7 to 11.

What are King's Academy Gomer's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is King's Academy Gomer?

King's Academy Gomer is at Pyrford Close, Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 2RP.