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Garland Junior School

PrimaryAges 7–11Community

Burghfield Common, RG7 3HG · West Berkshire local authority

Burghfield Common’s School Grade A− better than 80% of towns in England

Its letter
26%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
185 pupils
77% of its 240 places
Free school meals
27%
27 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Garland Junior School

  • Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 26% of England’s primary schools
  • 54% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points below England’s schools
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG7 3) sold for a median £465,000; Burghfield Common’s is £450,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 54%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 26% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · West Berkshire avg 56%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Garland Junior 54%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading74%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)69%
England’s schools 73%
Maths70%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling63%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
33%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
62%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three6%
England’s schools 8% · West Berkshire 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.

Burghfield Common and West Berkshire, side by side

2023–2025

All 55 graded primaries in West Berkshire. 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. Burghfield Common’s schools are coloured by their letter.

0%17%34%51%68%85%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Garland Junior
ABCDElsewhere in West BerkshireGarland Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
The Ilsleys Primary SchoolA+9%88%
Enborne C.E. Primary SchoolA+4%84%
Theale C.E. Primary SchoolA21%82%
Bradfield C.E. Primary SchoolA11%80%
St Paul's Catholic Primary SchoolA4%79%
Birch Copse Primary SchoolA7%78%
Robert Sandilands Primary School and NurseryA27%77%
Hampstead Norreys C.E. Primary SchoolA26%76%
Curridge Primary SchoolA−7%72%
Mortimer St Mary's C.E. Junior SchoolB+10%70%
Downsway Primary SchoolB7%67%
Springfield Primary SchoolB9%66%
Falkland Primary SchoolB6%66%
Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary SchoolB2%66%
Burghfield St Mary's C.E. Primary SchoolB13%65%
Sulhamstead and Ufton Nervet SchoolB6%65%
The Willows Primary SchoolB−25%64%
Shefford C.E. Primary SchoolB−6%61%
Englefield C.E. Primary SchoolB−8%61%
Yattendon C.E. Primary SchoolC+3%58%
Westwood Farm Junior SchoolC15%57%
St Finian's Catholic Primary SchoolC3%57%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolC7%57%
Chieveley Primary SchoolC10%56%
Brightwalton C.E. Aided Primary SchoolC10%56%
Kennet Valley Primary SchoolC25%55%
The Winchcombe SchoolC18%55%
Fir Tree Primary School and NurseryC34%55%
Hermitage Primary SchoolC13%54%
Hungerford Primary SchoolC29%54%
Garland Junior SchoolC27%54%
Stockcross C.E. SchoolC5%54%
Calcot Junior SchoolC−29%53%
Bucklebury C.E. Primary SchoolC−16%53%
Thatcham Park CofE PrimaryC−19%53%
Francis Baily Primary SchoolC−17%52%
Shaw-cum-Donnington C.E. Primary SchoolC−37%51%
St Nicolas C.E. Junior SchoolC−17%51%
Speenhamland SchoolC−25%49%
Woolhampton C.E. Primary SchoolC−5%48%
Long Lane Primary SchoolD9%47%
Purley CofE Primary SchoolD22%47%
Whitelands Park Primary SchoolD23%46%
Parsons Down Junior SchoolD17%45%
Spurcroft Primary SchoolD14%45%
Welford and Wickham C.E. Primary SchoolD19%44%
John Rankin Junior SchoolD13%44%
Kintbury St Mary's C.E. Primary SchoolD26%41%
Aldermaston C.E. Primary SchoolD29%40%
Pangbourne Primary SchoolD17%39%
Lambourn CofE Primary SchoolD−30%36%
Brimpton C.E. Primary SchoolD−22%26%
Chaddleworth St Andrew's C.E. Primary SchoolD−27%25%
Beedon C.E. (Controlled) Primary SchoolD−46%18%
Beenham Primary SchoolD−33%0%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

185 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
20%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.7%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.3%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

Garland Junior School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths CBetter than 26% 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.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), September 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Garland Junior School

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

Home prices in RG7 3, the school’s postcode sector

Burghfield Common property prices →
£465,000
median sale, 396 sales in 36 months · Burghfield Common £450,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K£500K2010201520202025RG7 3Burghfield Common
RG7 3Burghfield Common

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£620K
Semi-detached
£450K
Terraced
£339K
Flat
£220K
RG7 3Burghfield Common

Homes in RG7 3 sell for a little over Burghfield Common’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

4 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBBACGarland Junior School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Burghfield Common, RG7 3HG

Garland Junior School: common questions

Is Garland Junior School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 26% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 54% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in June 2026.

What is Garland Junior School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Garland Junior School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG7 3, sold for a median £465,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (396 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; Burghfield Common’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.

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