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Caister Junior School

Primary · Great Yarmouth · NR30 5ET

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Good

Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection

Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.

Inspected 10 July 2024

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At a glance

324 pupils · 90% of 360 capacity

School type
Community school
Age range
7–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
33% of pupils
English as additional language
5.4% of pupils
SEN support
25.6% of pupils
EHC plan
3.9% of pupils
Website
https://c2cfed.org/junior/
URN
120795

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

87 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
71%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
5%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
107
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
107
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school71%
Median of its 12 closest peers56%
Norfolk average56.2%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Rivacre Valley Primary SchoolEllesmere Port · 199 miles awayGood58%
Oulton Primary SchoolLeeds · 152 miles awayGood42%
Hungerford Primary SchoolHungerford · 162 miles awayGood65%
Cheadle Primary SchoolStoke-on-Trent · 157 miles awayGood46%
Netherton CofE Primary SchoolDudley · 161 miles awayGood57%
Inkersall Spencer AcademyChesterfield · 135 miles awayExpected standard66%
Holy Trinity Church of England VC Primary School & Community NurseryWeymouth · 229 miles awayGood72%
The Florence Nightingale AcademyNottingham · 129 miles awayGood58%
Long Lee Primary SchoolKeighley · 171 miles awayGood39%
Valley Primary School and NurseryWhitehaven · 253 miles awayGood36%
St Elisabeth's Church of England PrimaryStockport · 171 miles awayRequires improvement55%
St Marychurch Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolTorquay · 271 miles awayGood53%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
5.5%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
14.6%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
21
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

91% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£8,072
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
4/10more deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
4/10more deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher18.9%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications21.6%18.1%
In managerial or professional work24%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways19.3%18.1%
Residents in very good health40%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier72.6%62.3%
Social housing8.1%17.1%
Privately rented19%20.5%
Detached houses29.4%22.9%
Flats2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms15%21.1%
Households with no car or van20%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01026594 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£230,000273 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£190,000–£270,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (100)£295,000
Semi-detached (105)£225,000
Terraced (66)£176,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
2a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
3a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
9a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
1a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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