Clowne Junior School

About Clowne Junior School

Clowne Junior School has turned a corner. In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in 2021, the school was rated Good across every category — overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. That’s a clear improvement from its previous inspection in 2018, when it was judged to Require Improvement on both overall effectiveness and leadership and management. The school’s academic story is best told through its Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year. 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the Derbyshire local authority average of 59%. That puts Clowne Junior School 4th out of 22 primary schools in the Bolsover area, comfortably in the top 25% nationally. For a school where 38.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, these outcomes are particularly notable.

Digging into the detail, the school’s strongest subject at KS2 is reading, where 86% of pupils reached the expected standard and 38% achieved the higher standard. Maths is close behind, with 83% at expected and 43% at higher. Writing is a relative weak spot: 79% at expected and just 22% at higher. The average scaled scores for reading and maths are both 108, which is above the national benchmark of 100. The school’s ranking score of 73, based on the combined expected standard metric, places it 47th out of 353 primary schools in Derbyshire. That’s a strong showing for a junior school in a local authority where only nine schools are rated Outstanding by Ofsted. The progress scores are not available in the data, so it’s not possible to say how much value the school adds on top of pupils’ starting points, but the raw attainment figures are clearly above average.

Clowne Junior School is a state primary for mixed-gender pupils aged 7 to 11, with 326 pupils on roll against a capacity of 365. The school offers a broad set of facilities including a sports hall, library, gymnasium, playing fields and a chapel. Sports on offer include swimming, netball, gymnastics, cross country, athletics, tennis and rounders, and there are clubs for coding, drama and choir. The school’s SEND provisions are extensive, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. This suggests the school is well set up to support a wide range of additional needs. With its strong academic results and above-average attainment for a relatively high-FSM cohort, Clowne Junior School is a solid choice for families in the Bolsover area who want a good local state option without the pressure of an Outstanding rating.

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