Queensway Junior Academy
Thetford, IP24 3DP · Norfolk local authority
Thetford’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England
What stands out about Queensway Junior Academy
- Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 20% of England’s primary schools
- Room to spare: 141 pupils for 271 places
- 52% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (IP24 3) sold for a median £193,000; Thetford’s is £217,000
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025151 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.
Girls and boys
Queensway Junior Academy’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting February 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Inadequate, January 2022.
Living near Queensway Junior Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in IP24 3, the school’s postcode sector
Thetford property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in IP24 3 sell for a little under Thetford’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
8 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Thetford, IP24 3DP
Queensway Junior Academy: common questions
Is Queensway Junior Academy 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 0% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in February 2026.
What is Queensway Junior Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (February 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Queensway Junior Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, IP24 3, sold for a median £193,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (177 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; Thetford’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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