Brook House Junior

About Brook House Junior

Brook House Junior sits within the Sheffield local authority, a large primary landscape where 14 out of 131 schools hold an Outstanding Ofsted rating. The school itself ranks 49th out of 106 primary schools in the area on the key stage 2 expected standard measure, placing it in the bottom half of Sheffield primaries. For context, the highest-scoring local peers include Dobcroft Junior School, Angram Bank Primary School, and Totley Primary School, all of which sit well above Brook House in the rankings. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is Mosborough Primary School, about 3.2 kilometres away. Brook House is a state-funded, mixed junior school for pupils aged 7 to 11, with no religious character. It currently has 328 pupils on roll against a capacity of 360, and 22.3 per cent of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the national average and reflects a relatively high level of disadvantage in the intake.

In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in November 2022, Brook House Junior was rated Good across all five graded categories: overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This is consistent with its previous inspection in 2016, which also awarded a Good rating. On the 2023/24 key stage 2 assessments, 58 per cent of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is just one percentage point above the Sheffield local authority average of 57 per cent. However, only 8 per cent achieved the higher standard in all three subjects. In individual subjects, 73 per cent met the expected standard in both reading and maths, while 71 per cent did so in writing. Average scaled scores were 104 in both reading and maths. Nationally, the school ranks 8,473rd out of 13,686 primary schools on the combined expected standard metric, placing it in the bottom half of schools across England.

The school offers a solid range of facilities including a Forest School, dining hall, gymnasium, ICT suite, outdoor playground, art studios and a chapel. Sports provision covers football, athletics, netball, rounders, cricket and tennis, and there are clubs for coding, science, chess and eco activities. Brook House Junior has a broad SEND offer, with provisions for specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties or disabilities. The school is not oversubscribed, with 32 spare places, so families in the Sheffield area looking for a Good-rated junior school with strong SEND support and a Forest School programme may find it a practical option. It is not a boarding school and has no nursery or sixth form provision.

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