High Down Junior School
Portishead, BS20 6DY · North Somerset local authority
Portishead’s School Grade A better than 90% of towns in England
What stands out about High Down Junior School
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 79% of England’s primary schools
- 73% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
- 10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024 (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (BS20 6) sold for a median £351,500; Portishead’s is £382,500
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 73%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 79% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · North Somerset avg 62%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
Portishead and North Somerset, side by side
2023–2025All 56 graded primaries in North Somerset. 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. Portishead’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tickenham Church of England Primary School | A+ | 0% | 86% |
| Birdwell Primary School | A | 6% | 81% |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School | A | 6% | 79% |
| Winscombe Primary School | A | 8% | 77% |
| St Nicholas Chantry Church of England Primary School | A− | 7% | 75% |
| High Down Junior School | A− | 10% | 73% |
| Northleaze Church of England Primary School | A− | 1% | 73% |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School | A− | 16% | 73% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | A− | 9% | 73% |
| Yeo Moor Primary School | A− | 11% | 72% |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School | A− | 14% | 71% |
| Churchill Church of England Primary School | A− | 19% | 71% |
| Grove Junior School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Blagdon Primary School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Sandford Primary School | B+ | 18% | 70% |
| Golden Valley Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| Herons' Moor Academy | B+ | 17% | 69% |
| Oldmixon Primary School | B+ | 48% | 69% |
| St Anne's Church Primary School | B+ | 10% | 69% |
| Uphill Village Academy | B+ | 17% | 69% |
| Portishead Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Worle Village Primary School | B+ | 32% | 68% |
| Dundry Church of England Primary School | B+ | 23% | 68% |
| All Saints Church of England Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Court-De-Wyck Church School | B | 20% | 67% |
| St Mark's Ecumenical Anglican/Methodist Primary School | B | 15% | 67% |
| Backwell Church of England Junior School | B | 4% | 67% |
| Flax Bourton Church of England Primary School | B | 5% | 66% |
| Haywood Village Academy | B | 19% | 65% |
| St John the Evangelist Church School | B− | 8% | 64% |
| Wrington Church of England Primary School | B− | 5% | 64% |
| Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School | B− | 10% | 62% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Portbury | B− | 10% | 62% |
| St Martin's Church of England Primary School | B− | 18% | 61% |
| Worlebury St Pauls Church School | B− | 7% | 61% |
| Burrington Church of England Primary School | C+ | 7% | 58% |
| Mary Elton Primary School | C | 10% | 57% |
| Castle Batch Primary School | C | 9% | 57% |
| Yatton Church of England Junior School | C | 16% | 55% |
| Mendip Green Primary School | C | 19% | 55% |
| Locking Primary School | C | 20% | 54% |
| St Georges Church School | C− | 14% | 53% |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School | C− | 23% | 53% |
| Becket Primary School | C− | 28% | 53% |
| Ashcombe Primary School | C− | 23% | 53% |
| Winford Church of England Primary School | C− | 8% | 52% |
| Milton Park Primary School | C− | 25% | 51% |
| Banwell Primary School | C− | 26% | 51% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School | C− | 8% | 51% |
| Hutton Church of England Primary School | C− | 8% | 50% |
| Mead Vale Community Primary School | C− | 19% | 49% |
| Crockerne Church of England Primary School | D | 16% | 42% |
| Kingshill Church School | D | 33% | 41% |
| Walliscote Primary School | D− | 28% | 38% |
| Windwhistle Primary School | D− | 44% | 31% |
| Bournville Primary School | D− | 50% | 30% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025341 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
High Down Junior School’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.
Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, November 2024.
Living near High Down Junior School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BS20 6, the school’s postcode sector
Portishead property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BS20 6 sell for a little under Portishead’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
6 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Portishead, BS20 6DY
High Down Junior School: common questions
Is High Down Junior School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 79% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 73% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, November 2024.
What is High Down Junior School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (November 2024).
How much do houses cost near High Down Junior School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BS20 6, sold for a median £351,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (425 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; Portishead’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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