Church Hill Church of England Junior School
General Information
- Address: Church Hill Road, Thurmaston, Leicester, LE4 8DE – View on map
- Phone: 01162692509
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Diane Brown
- Age range: 7-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 48
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.2%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Charnwood average)
- English as an additional language: 31% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.7% a year (Charnwood 15.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 23% moved to another school, 77% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Leicestershire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Leicestershire (the council area this school is in), not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 18 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 9 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 57% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 2% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points below the Charnwood average (63%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 62% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 62%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 71% · Writing 73% · Maths 84% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 78%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 105
- Based on: 63 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 29th of 45 junior and primary schools in the area
- =26St Peter and St Paul Church of England Academy58%
- =26The Merton Primary School58%
- #29Church Hill Church of England Junior School57%
- =30Richard Hill Church of England Primary School56%
- =30Riverside Community Primary School Birstall56%
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1st of 2 junior schools in Charnwood for Ofsted rating
- #1Church Hill Church of England Junior SchoolGood
- #2Thorpe Acre Junior SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,664 (2024-25)
2nd of 2 junior schools in Charnwood for spending per pupil
- #1Thorpe Acre Junior School£9,327
- #2Church Hill Church of England Junior School£6,664
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