Grange Community Junior School

About Grange Community Junior School

Grange Community Junior School in Rushmoor holds a Good rating from its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2025, but the detail tells a more nuanced story. The school was not judged on overall effectiveness in that inspection, yet it achieved Outstanding grades for both personal development and behaviour and attitudes. Leadership and management, along with the quality of education, were rated Good. This represents a shift from the school’s previous inspection in 2015, when it was judged Outstanding overall. On the key academic metric for a primary school, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined in the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 assessments. That figure sits above the Hampshire local authority average of 61%, placing Grange 5th out of 16 schools in Rushmoor and in the top 50% nationally. The school’s ranking score of 70 reflects solid, above-average performance in a competitive local context.

Digging into the KS2 results, Grange’s strengths are clearest in reading and maths. The average scaled scores were 105 for reading and 104 for maths, both above the national benchmark of 100. In reading, 30% of pupils achieved the higher standard, compared with 17% in maths and just 10% in writing. The proportion reaching the expected standard in each of reading, maths and writing individually was a consistent 80%, showing balanced delivery across the core subjects. The combined expected standard figure of 70% is the headline metric, but the higher-standard attainment in reading is notably strong. The school does not publish progress scores for any subject, so it is not possible to see how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points. However, the attainment data suggests a school that reliably gets the majority of its pupils to a solid level, with a particular edge in reading comprehension.

The school is a junior setting for ages 7 to 11, with 235 pupils on roll against a capacity of 240, so it is very close to full. Just over 31% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, which is above the national average and gives a sense of the community it serves. Facilities include a library, sports hall, music rooms, art studios and an outdoor playground, and the school offers clubs such as choir, coding, science club and film club. Sports on offer include football, cricket, swimming, athletics and tennis. The SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate and severe learning difficulties, speech and language needs, social and emotional mental health needs, physical disabilities and autistic spectrum disorder. Parent feedback is overwhelmingly positive: 100% of respondents would recommend the school, and 83% strongly agreed that their child is happy there. This is a school that suits families looking for strong academic foundations, a wide range of enrichment and a supportive environment for children with additional needs.

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