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Warden Hill Junior School

PrimaryAges 7–11Community

Luton, LU3 2DN · Luton local authority

Luton’s School Grade B better than 60% of towns in England

Its letter
37%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
418 pupils
93% of its 450 places
Free school meals
21%
21 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Warden Hill Junior School

  • Its own letter, C+: Key Stage 2 results better than 37% of England’s primary schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LU3 2) sold for a median £324,687; Luton’s is £315,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 58%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 36% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Luton avg 64%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Warden Hill Junior 58%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading84%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)62%
England’s schools 73%
Maths72%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling73%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 24 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
54%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
53%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three3%
England’s schools 8% · Luton 7% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Luton and Luton, side by side

2023–2025

All 37 graded primaries in Luton. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Luton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

50%57%64%71%78%85%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Warden Hill Junior
ABCDElsewhere in LutonWarden Hill Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Hillborough Junior SchoolA+36%86%
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolA+32%86%
Leagrave Primary SchoolA+26%85%
Denbigh Primary SchoolA−25%75%
Chantry Primary AcademyA−30%73%
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary SchoolA−23%73%
River Bank Primary SchoolA−24%71%
Stopsley Community Primary SchoolB+22%70%
Downside Primary SchoolB+21%70%
Putteridge Primary SchoolB+17%68%
The Meads Primary SchoolB30%66%
William Austin Junior SchoolB30%65%
Foxdell Primary SchoolB−26%64%
Waulud Primary SchoolB−46%64%
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolB−14%64%
Southfield Primary AcademyB−28%64%
Whitefield Primary AcademyB−46%64%
Someries Junior SchoolB−15%63%
Icknield Primary SchoolB−21%63%
St Martin De Porres Catholic Primary SchoolB−13%63%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Cutenhoe Hill Primary SchoolB−32%62%
Farley Junior AcademyC+39%60%
Ferrars Junior SchoolC+23%60%
Bramingham Primary SchoolC+14%59%
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolC+29%59%
Warden Hill Junior SchoolC+21%58%
St Matthew's Primary SchoolC34%57%
Maidenhall Primary SchoolC22%56%
Ramridge Primary SchoolC29%56%
Dallow Primary SchoolC24%56%
The Linden AcademyC34%55%
Parklea Primary SchoolC25%54%
Norton Road Primary SchoolC−31%52%
Pirton Hill Primary SchoolC−37%52%
Wigmore PrimaryC−20%52%
Beechwood Primary SchoolC−23%50%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

425 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
18.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
66.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
22.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

Warden Hill Junior School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C+Better than 37% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Warden Hill Junior School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in LU3 2, the school’s postcode sector

Luton property prices →
£324,687
median sale, 426 sales in 36 months · Luton £315,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025LU3 2Luton
LU3 2Luton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£419K
Semi-detached
£325K
Terraced
£295K
Flat
£165K
LU3 2Luton

Homes in LU3 2 sell for a little over Luton’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−C−CBBB−C+B−B−C−A−B+A−BB−C+CBC+Warden Hill Junior School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Luton, LU3 2DN

Warden Hill Junior School: common questions

Is Warden Hill Junior School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 37% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C+), with 58% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025.

What is Warden Hill Junior School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near Warden Hill Junior School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LU3 2, sold for a median £324,687 over the 36 months to August 2026 (426 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Luton’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.