Angel Road Junior School

Angel Road Junior School is a good school overall, with outstanding personal development and good quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, and leadership and management. Inspectors found a calm, purposeful school where pupils love learning, behave well and benefit from a broad curriculum and extensive enrichment. Leaders have driven rapid improvement since the previous inspection, which graded the school as requiring improvement, and the Evolution multi-academy trust has provided strong support.

Strengths

• Rapid school improvement since the previous inspection
• Calm and purposeful lessons with typically positive behaviour
• High expectations and effective checking of pupils' understanding
• Strong curriculum review with clear knowledge sequencing
• Highly effective staff training and trust support
• High priority on reading with rapid phonics catch-up
• Strong support for pupils new to English
• Effective SEND identification and adaptation; pupils with SEND make strong progress
• Robust attendance systems; persistent absence below national levels
• Outstanding personal development with extensive enrichment and pupil voice
• Pupils are responsible, tolerant and well prepared for life in modern Britain
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• In a few subjects, pupils cannot explain connections between facts or apply knowledge to show depth by the end of a unit

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 Angel Road Junior School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 10.6% 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, 1.6% of pupils at Angel Road 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 Angel Road Junior School had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.4% 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, 18.2% of pupils at Angel Road Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 7.3% 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 Angel Road Junior School received £7,858 and spent £7,383 for each of its 191 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £176,000 (£923 per pupil).

Across all 12 schools of Evolution Academy Trust, income was £6,922 and spending £7,234 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 Norwich · Norfolk local authority: places and applications

Angel Road Junior School is part of Evolution Academy Trust, which runs 12 schools. The nearest others:

• Angel Road Infant School Norwich
• Nelson Infant School Norwich
• Wensum Junior School Norwich
• Bignold Primary School and Nursery Norwich
• Eaton Primary School Norwich
• Costessey Primary School Norwich
• Filby Primary School Great Yarmouth
• Dell Primary School Lowestoft
• Elm Tree Primary School Lowestoft
• Poplars Community Primary School Lowestoft

What is Angel Road Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Angel Road Junior School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Angel Road Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Angel Road Junior School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Angel Road Junior School have?

Angel Road Junior School has 192 pupils on roll.

What age range does Angel Road Junior School cover?

Angel Road Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Angel Road Junior School?

Angel Road Junior School is at Angel Road, 81 Angel Road, Norwich, NR3 3HR.