Park Junior School, Stonehouse

Ofsted's report card from its 21 April 2026 inspection grades Park Junior School on 6 areas: 2 needs attention and 4 urgent improvement. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders have taken meaningful steps to improve attendance by supporting families, such as offering places in the breakfast club for pupils who need it."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "The curriculum includes opportunities that support pupils' wider development."

Achievement - Urgent improvement. "There has been a long-standing pattern of underachievement in the school."

Curriculum and teaching - Urgent improvement. "In several subjects, the curriculum is at an early stage of development."

Inclusion - Urgent improvement. "Leaders' and staff's expectations for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are too low."

Leadership and governance - Urgent improvement. "The school has experienced a prolonged period of instability since the previous inspection."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that teachers have the expertise needed so that disadvantaged pupils, pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who face other barriers to their learning and/or wellbeing receive effective support"; "Leaders should ensure that an ambitious and well-sequenced curriculum is fully developed and implemented effectively so that teaching enables pupils to build the knowledge and skills they need for their next stage of education"; "Leaders must ensure that staff accurately identify and address gaps in pupils' knowledge, particularly in reading, writing and mathematics, so that pupils make the progress that they should and achieve well"; "Leaders should continue to ensure that teaching supports pupils to build consistently on their early letter and number formation skills to help them secure fluent, accurate and legible handwriting"; "Leaders must rebuild trust with staff so that pupils' best interests and their enjoyment of school sit at the heart of school life"; "Those responsible for governance must build their knowledge and expertise so they can evaluate the use of additional funding, including pupil premium funding, fulfil their statutory duties and hold leaders effectively to account"; "Leaders and governors must act quickly to improve pupils' attendance and punctuality, particularly pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, so that pupils do not miss out on important learning"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils develop a secure understanding of life in modern Britain, including knowledge of fundamental British values and the protected characteristics, and that staff have the confidence to deliver the personal development programme as intended".

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils at Park Junior School reached the expected standard in reading and 57% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 75% in Gloucestershire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 53% in reading and 33% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

Across Gloucestershire, 92% 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 Gloucestershire lodged 173 appeals against primary school offers; 131 reached a hearing and 46 succeeded (35.1% of those heard).

The nearest other state primary schools to Park Junior School are Stonehouse Park Infant School (under 0.1 miles, Good); Great Oldbury Primary Academy (0.9 miles, Good); Leonard Stanley Church of England Primary School (1.2 miles, Good, 97% reading, 84% maths); and Eastington Primary School (1.3 miles, Good, 85% reading, 80% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Park Junior School.

36.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 10.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 22 pupils (16.3%) received SEN support and 17 (12.6%) 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 a moderate learning difficulty.

The nearest railway station is Stonehouse Rail Station, about 520 metres away (roughly a 7-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Elms (by), 110 metres away.

In 2024/25, Park Junior School issued 21 suspensions, 12.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.