Somerlea Park Junior School

Somerlea Park Junior School is performing well, with leaders actively ensuring that pupils, including those facing challenges, achieve good progress from their starting points. The school has implemented changes to improve attainment in writing and mathematics, with many pupils meeting expected standards. Moreover, there is a strong commitment to inclusion, with effective measures in place to support disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs. The school's safeguarding standards are met, creating a safe environment for all.

Strengths

• Leaders have a detailed understanding of the school's context and community.
• Pupils experience a well-structured and progressive curriculum.
• Support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities is effective.
• There is a strong emphasis on safeguarding, ensuring pupils feel safe.
• Teachers provide good support and interventions for pupils' learning.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' attendance is below the national average.
• Variability in the quality of teaching across some classes and year groups affects learning consistency.
• Some pupils struggle to apply writing knowledge accurately across the curriculum.

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 Somerlea Park Junior School attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.2% 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, 2.3% of pupils at Somerlea Park 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 Somerlea Park Junior School had 27.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.5% 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, 13.2% of pupils at Somerlea Park Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 9.6% 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 Somerlea Park Junior School received £9,268 and spent £8,466 for each of its 129 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £240,000 (£1,860 per pupil).

Across all 20 schools of Learners' Trust, income was £8,896 and spending £8,606 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 Alfreton · Derbyshire local authority: places and applications

Somerlea Park Junior School is part of Learners' Trust, which runs 21 schools. The nearest others:

• Somercotes Infant and Nursery School Alfreton
• Model Village Primary School Mansfield
• Chaddesden Park Primary School Derby
• Walton Holymoorside Primary School Chesterfield
• Old Hall Junior School Chesterfield
• Westfield Infant School Chesterfield
• Brimington Manor Infant and Nursery School Chesterfield
• Ashgate Croft School Chesterfield
• Holme Hall Primary School Chesterfield
• Brimington Junior School Chesterfield

What is Somerlea Park Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Somerlea Park Junior School is Needs attention, from an inspection in May 2026.

When was Somerlea Park Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Somerlea Park Junior School was last inspected in May 2026.

How many pupils does Somerlea Park Junior School have?

Somerlea Park Junior School has 136 pupils on roll.

What age range does Somerlea Park Junior School cover?

Somerlea Park Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Somerlea Park Junior School?

Somerlea Park Junior School is at Bank Street, Somercotes, Alfreton, Derbyshire, DE55 4JE.