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Townhill Junior School

PrimaryAges 7–11Foundation

West End, SO18 2NX · Southampton local authority

West End’s School Grade C better than 31% of towns in England

Its letter
20%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
210 pupils
88% of its 240 places
Free school meals
46%
46 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Townhill Junior School

  • Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 20% of England’s primary schools
  • 51% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points below England’s schools
  • 46% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, October 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SO18 2) sold for a median £270,000; West End’s is £315,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 51%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 20% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Southampton avg 58%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Townhill Junior 51%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 100, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading60%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)71%
England’s schools 73%
Maths59%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling51%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 41 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
34%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
61%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three5%
England’s schools 8% · Southampton 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.

West End and Southampton, side by side

2023–2025

All 43 graded primaries in Southampton. 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. West End’s schools are coloured by their letter.

15%28%41%54%67%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Townhill Junior
ABCDElsewhere in SouthamptonTownhill Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Springhill Catholic Primary SchoolA+13%88%
Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA59%82%
Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA33%79%
Portswood Primary SchoolA29%78%
Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA26%76%
Fairisle Junior SchoolA−44%75%
Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of SchoolsA−16%74%
Highfield Church of England Primary SchoolA−13%74%
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolA−24%71%
Hollybrook Junior SchoolB26%66%
Banister Primary SchoolB34%65%
Tanners Brook Primary SchoolB36%65%
St Mark's Church of England SchoolB−47%64%
Ludlow Junior SchoolB−40%64%
Newlands Primary SchoolB−61%63%
Swaythling Primary SchoolB−40%62%
Mansbridge Primary SchoolB−51%61%
Redbridge Primary SchoolB−65%61%
Freemantle Church of England Community AcademyB−33%61%
Kanes Hill Primary SchoolC+55%59%
Foundry Lane Primary SchoolC+25%59%
St Denys Primary SchoolC37%57%
Shirley Junior SchoolC20%57%
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & NurseryC45%56%
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery SchoolC29%55%
Oakwood Primary SchoolC27%55%
Beechwood Junior SchoolC31%55%
Weston Park Primary SchoolC61%54%
Sholing Junior SchoolC−26%53%
Bevois Town Primary SchoolC−42%52%
Moorlands Primary SchoolC−42%52%
Harefield Primary SchoolC−43%52%
Townhill Junior SchoolC−46%51%
Bassett Green Primary SchoolC−44%51%
St John's Primary and Nursery SchoolC−40%50%
Wordsworth Primary and Nursery SchoolC−38%49%
St Monica Primary SchoolD34%47%
Mount Pleasant JuniorsD46%45%
Bitterne Church of England Primary SchoolD28%41%
Valentine Primary School & NurseryD−50%37%
Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery SchoolD−37%30%
Hightown Primary SchoolD−70%28%
Thornhill Primary SchoolD−66%17%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

256 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
28.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
19.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
48.8%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

Townhill 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 20% 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: Good, October 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Townhill Junior School

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

Home prices in SO18 2, the school’s postcode sector

West End property prices →
£270,000
median sale, 270 sales in 36 months · West End £315,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025SO18 2West End
SO18 2West End

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£300K
Semi-detached
£288K
Terraced
£260K
Flat
£170K
SO18 2West End

Homes in SO18 2 sell for a little under West End’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

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCA−CB−B−C−B−DC−D−AAC−CD−C−Townhill Junior School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

West End, SO18 2NX

Townhill Junior School: common questions

Is Townhill Junior School a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 20% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 51% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2022.

What is Townhill Junior School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2022).

How much do houses cost near Townhill Junior School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SO18 2, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (270 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; West End’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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