Manor Farm Junior School

Manor Farm Junior School is a caring and orderly school where pupils feel safe and relationships between pupils and staff are strong. Behaviour and personal development are notable strengths: lessons are calm, pupils are respectful, and they benefit from a wide range of enrichment, leadership opportunities such as the pupil parliament, and learning about online safety and healthy relationships. Attendance expectations are high and most pupils attend regularly, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The quality of education is not yet consistently good. The curriculum is broad and ambitious and 2024 key stage 2 results in reading, writing and mathematics were about average overall, but achievement varies across the school. Teaching approaches are inconsistent, expectations differ between subjects and year groups, and teachers’ checks do not reliably show how well pupils have learned. Support for weaker readers is not effective enough, with books not closely matched to pupils’ reading ability, and many pupils with SEND do not receive the academic support they need, although pupils with the greatest challenges are supported well. Leadership and management require improvement. The trust has a more accurate view of priorities, but governance and executive leadership do not work through a coherent process, so the school is not held to account as effectively as it could be for the pace and impact of improvement. Staff workload is managed well and staff value training, but training is not focused enough on making classroom approaches consistently effective. Most parents are positive, though parents of pupils with SEND are less positive. This was the school’s first routine inspection since the pandemic and its first section 5 inspection as an academy; it converted in 2022 after its predecessor school was judged inadequate.

Strengths

• Kind and caring relationships between pupils
• Staff look after pupils well and keep them safe
• Pupils trust staff to sort out problems quickly
• High expectations for attendance with most pupils attending regularly
• Broad and ambitious curriculum across the school
• Pupils are enthusiastic readers and use the library regularly
• Personal development is a clear strength
• Wide range of enriching activities that broaden pupils’ horizons
• Pupils develop a strong understanding of modern Britain and respect for diversity
• Pupils learn how to stay safe online and form healthy relationships
• Pupils debate issues and topics well
• Pupils develop leadership skills through the pupil parliament
• Pupils respect school rules and lessons are calm
• Effective support for pupils with specific behaviour needs
• Swift action when pupils’ attendance dips
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective
• Staff appreciate how leaders manage workload
• Staff value the range of training and support provided
• The school engages well with parents overall

Areas for Improvement

• Teaching approaches are not consistently effective across lessons
• Teachers’ expectations vary between subjects and year groups
• Pupils are not always fully engaged in their learning
• Teachers’ checks do not effectively gauge how well pupils have learned
• Support for weaker readers is not effective enough
• Books for weaker readers are not matched precisely to their reading ability
• Weaker readers are not routinely supported to access class texts fully
• Lessons are not adapted well enough to meet the academic needs of pupils with SEND
• Staff are not given specific guidance to support pupils with SEND consistently
• Governance and trust review processes are not coherently aligned
• The trust does not hold the school to account fully effectively for improvement
• Training is not focused enough on making classroom approaches consistently effective
• Parents of pupils with SEND have less positive views of the school’s work

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 Manor Farm Junior School attended 95.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 4.9% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Manor Farm 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 Manor Farm Junior School had 18.7 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 35.1% 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, 30.2% of pupils at Manor Farm Junior School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.0% 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 Manor Farm Junior School received £6,172 and spent £6,186 for each of its 221 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £89,000 (£404 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of Great Learners Trust, income was £6,935 and spending £6,916 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 High Wycombe · Buckinghamshire local authority: places and applications

Manor Farm Junior School is part of Great Learners Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Wooburn Green Primary School High Wycombe
• Prestwood Junior School Great Missenden
• Great Missenden CofE Combined School Great Missenden
• Prestwood Infant School Great Missenden
• West Wycombe School High Wycombe
• Princes Risborough Primary School Princes Risborough
• Great Kimble Church of England School Aylesbury
• Bedgrove Junior School Aylesbury
• Bearbrook Combined School Aylesbury
• Elmhurst School Aylesbury

What is Manor Farm Junior School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Manor Farm Junior School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Manor Farm Junior School last inspected by Ofsted?

Manor Farm Junior School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Manor Farm Junior School have?

Manor Farm Junior School has 202 pupils on roll.

What age range does Manor Farm Junior School cover?

Manor Farm Junior School for pupils aged 7 to 11.

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

In 2025, 54% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Manor Farm Junior School?

Manor Farm Junior School is at Rose Avenue, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP15 7PH.