Hanham Abbots Junior School

About Hanham Abbots Junior School

Hanham Abbots Junior School has been rated Good in its most recent Ofsted inspection, a notable improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating in 2018. The school now holds Good marks across all five inspection categories, including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. On the key academic metric for primary schools, 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined in the 2023/24 KS2 assessments. This comfortably exceeds the South Gloucestershire local authority average of 61%, placing the school 20th out of 69 primary schools in the area and in the top 30% nationally. The school's strongest individual subject is reading, where 82% of pupils reached the expected standard and 42% achieved the higher standard, well above the national picture.

Digging deeper into the KS2 results, Hanham Abbots pupils achieved an average reading score of 108 and an average maths score of 105, both above the national benchmark of 100. In maths, 76% of pupils reached the expected standard and 23% achieved the higher standard, while in writing 82% met the expected standard and 11% reached the higher level. The school's overall ranking score of 68 places it in the top 50 tier nationally, and it sits 21st out of 93 primary schools in South Gloucestershire. For context, the nearest Outstanding-rated school is Beacon Rise Primary School, 1.1 kilometres away. The school has a capacity of 384 pupils and currently enrols 321, suggesting some room for growth, with 12.5% of pupils eligible for free school meals, slightly below the national average.

The school offers a range of facilities including an ICT suite, sports hall, playing fields, outdoor playground, and a Forest School area, plus a chapel on site. Sports provision covers netball, athletics, cross country, rounders, football, cricket and swimming, while extracurricular clubs include gardening, chess and film club. SEND support is available for pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, speech, language and communication needs, social and emotional mental health needs, visual impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a junior school for ages 7 to 11, with no nursery or sixth form provision, and it is non-denominational. It will suit families looking for a solidly Good primary with above-average academic outcomes, a broad sporting offer, and strong SEND support within the South Gloucestershire area.

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