Endeavour Primary School

About Endeavour Primary School

Endeavour Primary School in Test Valley was rated Requires Improvement in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023, a drop from its previous Good rating in 2012. The inspection judged the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, and leadership and management all as Requires Improvement, while personal development was rated Good. The early years provision also requires improvement. The most telling exam metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2: just 43% did so in the 2023/24 academic year. That is well below the Hampshire local authority average of 61% and places the school 34th out of 40 primary schools in Test Valley. In the wider South East region, it sits in the 88th percentile, and nationally it ranks in the bottom half of all primary schools.

Looking more closely at individual subjects, 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, 53% in writing and 52% in maths. The proportion reaching the higher standard in any subject was low: 14% in reading, 12% in maths and none in writing or the combined measure. Average scaled scores were 102 in reading and 100 in maths, both around the national average of 100 but not enough to lift the combined figure. The school has no progress scores published, so it is difficult to say how much value it adds from pupils’ starting points. With 23.6% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a community with above-average disadvantage, which may partly explain the gap between its results and the LA average. The school is large, with 696 pupils against a capacity of 840, and is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 it received 131 applications for 108 places, with 91 first-preference offers.

Endeavour Primary School has a broad range of facilities including an ICT suite, sports hall, music rooms, a sensory room and a chapel. Sports on offer include football, tennis, cricket, gymnastics, dance, rounders and athletics, and clubs include coding, chess, choir and film club. The school’s SEND provision is extensive, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. This suggests the school is well set up to support children with a variety of additional needs. The nearest Outstanding-rated primary school is Portway Infant School, 3.6 km away. For families considering Endeavour, the data shows a school that is popular locally despite its Requires Improvement rating, but academic outcomes are significantly below the Hampshire average and the school will need to demonstrate improvement to reassure prospective parents.

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