Bounds Green Junior School, London

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Bounds Green Junior School on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils generally achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have established systems to support pupils to behave well and attend school regularly."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is carefully planned and logically sequenced towards clearly identified goals."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff identify pupils who face barriers to learning effectively."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders understand the school and its community well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a broad personal development programme that reflects their ambition to ensure all pupils have a sense of belonging."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff deliver the writing curriculum consistently well, addressing errors and misconceptions precisely and maintaining high expectations"; "Leaders should continue to use their analysis of attendance information to identify and address the barriers affecting pupils with special educational needs and or/disabilities so that attendance for this group improves further".

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils at Bounds Green Junior School reached the expected standard in reading and 81% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 82% and 82% in Haringey and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (83% in reading, 73% in maths).

Across Haringey, 86% of families were offered their first-choice primary school for 2026 entry, and 98% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2026, families in Haringey lodged 52 appeals against primary school offers; 33 reached a hearing and none succeeded.

The nearest other state primary schools to Bounds Green Junior School are Bounds Green Infant School (under 0.1 miles, Outstanding); St Martin of Porres Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 89% reading, 89% maths); Bowes Primary School (0.5 miles, Outstanding, 90% reading, 87% maths); and Lift Trinity (0.6 miles, Outstanding, 98% reading, 98% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Bounds Green Junior School.

34.5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (28%), Mixed (21%) and Black (8%).

In 2026, 37 pupils (10.6%) received SEN support and 13 (3.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Bounds Green, about 90 metres away (roughly a 1-minute walk).

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Palace Road (N11), 90 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Bounds Green Junior School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 587 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Haringey (982).

Bounds Green Junior School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to Bounds Green Junior School are Heartlands High School (0.6 miles), Alexandra Park School (0.6 miles), Laurel Park School (0.6 miles) and St Thomas More Catholic School (0.7 miles).