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Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy

PrimaryAges 7–11AcademyChurch of England

Whitchurch, SY13 1RX · Shropshire local authority

Whitchurch’s School Grade D better than 8% of towns in England

Its letter
16%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
304 pupils
84% of its 360 places
Free school meals
29%
29 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy

  • Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 16% of England’s primary schools
  • 49% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13 points below England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Good, July 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SY13 1) sold for a median £225,000; Whitchurch’s is £239,250

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 49%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 16% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Shropshire avg 57%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Whitchurch CofE Junior 49%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 102, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading61%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)61%
England’s schools 73%
Maths64%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling66%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 18 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
39%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
53%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three10%
England’s schools 8% · Shropshire 6% · 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.

Whitchurch and Shropshire, side by side

2023–2025

All 120 graded primaries in Shropshire. 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. Whitchurch’s schools are coloured by their letter.

5%21%37%53%69%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Whitchurch CofE Junior
ABCDElsewhere in ShropshireWhitchurch CofE Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Minsterley Primary SchoolA+23%83%
Norbury Primary School and NurseryA9%81%
St Lucia's CofE Primary School & NurseryA7%81%
Trinity CofE Primary SchoolA14%81%
Stottesdon CofE Primary SchoolA7%81%
Gobowen Primary SchoolA19%79%
Rushbury CofE Primary SchoolA19%79%
Claverley CofE Primary SchoolA11%78%
Stokesay Primary SchoolA27%78%
Castlefields Primary SchoolA4%78%
Moreton Say CofE Primary SchoolA14%76%
Hadnall Church of England Primary SchoolA−2%75%
Alveley Primary SchoolA−27%74%
Shifnal Primary SchoolA−14%73%
Oxon CofE Primary SchoolA−6%73%
St Lawrence CofE Primary SchoolA−13%72%
Coleham Primary SchoolA−8%72%
Hodnet Primary SchoolA−9%72%
Criftins CofE Primary School and NurseryA−19%72%
Clive CofE Primary SchoolA−8%71%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolB+12%70%
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolB+16%70%
St Andrew's CofE Primary SchoolB+12%69%
St Laurence CofE Primary SchoolB+12%69%
Longlands Primary SchoolB+41%69%
Lower Heath CofE Primary SchoolB+10%69%
St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School and NurseryB+9%69%
Corvedale CofE Primary SchoolB+9%68%
Wilfred Owen Primary SchoolB+57%68%
Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and NurseryB+18%68%
Stiperstones CofE Primary SchoolB16%67%
Prees CofE Primary SchoolB29%67%
St Marys CofE Primary SchoolB16%67%
Baschurch CofE Primary SchoolB10%66%
Longden CofE Primary SchoolB4%66%
St George's Junior SchoolB12%66%
Whixall CofE Primary SchoolB11%65%
Harlescott Junior SchoolB35%65%
Greenfields Primary SchoolB−18%64%
St Leonard's CofE Primary SchoolB−16%64%
Barrow 1618 CofE Free SchoolB−10%63%
Condover CofE Primary SchoolB−12%63%
St Edward's CofE Primary SchoolB−26%63%
Selattyn CofE Primary SchoolB−3%63%
Longnor CofE Primary SchoolB−1%62%
Bryn Offa CofE Primary SchoolB−15%62%
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary SchoolB−26%62%
Sheriffhales Primary School and PreschoolB−11%61%
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolB−33%61%
Adderley CofE Primary SchoolC+7%60%
Clee Hill Community AcademyC+15%60%
Radbrook Primary SchoolC+8%60%
St Peter's CofE Primary SchoolC+22%60%
West Felton Church of England Primary School and NurseryC+14%60%
Myddle CofE Primary SchoolC+9%59%
Pontesbury CofE Primary SchoolC+14%59%
Bitterley CofE Primary School (Aided)C+10%59%
Ellesmere Primary SchoolC+21%59%
St George's CofE Academy, ClunC+8%59%
Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and NurseryC+16%59%
Worfield Endowed Church Of England Primary SchoolC+9%59%
Church Preen Primary SchoolC+15%58%
Belvidere Primary SchoolC+11%58%
Ludlow Primary SchoolC+23%58%
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary Academy and NurseryC+38%58%
Market Drayton Junior SchoolC+34%58%
The Meadows Primary SchoolC16%57%
Mereside Church of England Primary AcademyC15%57%
Oakmeadow Church of England Primary and Nursery SchoolC10%57%
John Wilkinson Primary School and NurseryC25%56%
Mount Pleasant PrimaryC22%55%
Beckbury Church of England Primary School and NurseryC9%55%
Our Lady and St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyC24%55%
St Giles CofE Primary SchoolC11%54%
Much Wenlock Primary SchoolC18%54%
Newtown CofE Primary SchoolC−4%53%
Welshampton CofE Primary SchoolC−5%53%
Woodside Primary SchoolC−18%53%
Cleobury Mortimer Primary SchoolC−19%53%
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyC−5%53%
Trefonen CofE Primary SchoolC−8%52%
St Thomas and St Anne CofE Primary SchoolC−15%52%
Clunbury CofE Primary SchoolC−14%52%
Burford CofE Primary SchoolC−20%52%
Highley Community Primary SchoolC−25%51%
Broseley CofE Primary SchoolC−29%51%
Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary SchoolC−23%51%
Albrighton Primary School & NurseryC−20%50%
Stoke-on-Tern Primary SchoolC−24%49%
Whitchurch CofE Junior AcademyC−29%49%
Norton-in-Hales CofE Primary SchoolC−10%48%
Bomere Heath Church of England Primary SchoolC−23%48%
Morda CofE Primary SchoolD18%46%
St Martins School (3-16 Learning Community)D22%46%
Hinstock Primary SchoolD9%46%
Woore Primary and Nursery SchoolD12%46%
Kinnerley Church of England Primary School and NurseryD10%46%
Buntingsdale Primary School and NurseryD21%45%
Long Mountain CofE Primary SchoolD17%44%
Tilstock CofE Primary and NurseryD21%43%
Greenacres Primary SchoolD49%43%
Weston Lullingfields Church of England Primary School and NurseryD20%42%
Bishops Castle Primary SchoolD28%40%
The Martin Wilson SchoolD40%40%
Brown Clee CofE Primary SchoolD7%39%
Cockshutt CofE Primary School and NurseryD22%39%
Whittington CofE (VA) Primary SchoolD−13%38%
Morville CofE (Controlled) Primary SchoolD−7%38%
Weston Rhyn Primary SchoolD−20%36%
Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees NurseryD−4%35%
Farlow CofE Primary SchoolD−4%33%
Brockton CofE Primary SchoolD−5%32%
Buildwas AcademyD−32%28%
St Andrew's Church of England Primary School and NurseryD−32%26%
Newcastle CofE Primary SchoolD−19%25%
Grange Primary SchoolD−46%25%
Onny CofE (A) Primary SchoolD−15%25%
Wistanstow CofE Primary SchoolD−8%21%
Lydbury North Church of England Primary SchoolD−27%19%
Kinlet CofE Primary SchoolD−22%9%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

312 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
10.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
12.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 46%Boys 54%
Its letter

Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths C−Better than 16% 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, July 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy

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

Home prices in SY13 1, the school’s postcode sector

Whitchurch property prices →
£225,000
median sale, 471 sales in 36 months · Whitchurch £239,250

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025SY13 1Whitchurch
SY13 1Whitchurch

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£342K
Semi-detached
£212K
Terraced
£168K
Flat
£100K
SY13 1Whitchurch

Homes in SY13 1 sell for a little under Whitchurch’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

2 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCC−Whitchurch CofE Junior Acad…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Whitchurch, SY13 1RX

Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy: common questions

Is Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy a good school?

By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 16% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 49% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, July 2023.

What is Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2023).

How much do houses cost near Whitchurch CofE Junior Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, SY13 1, sold for a median £225,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (471 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; Whitchurch’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.