Somerlea Park Junior School
Primary · Alfreton · DE55 4JE
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 25 February 2026 · report published 30 April 2026
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136 pupils · 57% of 237 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 68.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 8.5% of pupils
- Website
- www.learnerstrust.org/spj
- URN
- 144949
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
35 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
65% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 35% 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
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy 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
- 25 February 2026: Expected standard
- 18 January 2022: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.