Netley Abbey Junior School
General Information
- Address: Westwood Road, Netley Abbey, Southampton, SO31 5EL – View on map
- Phone: 02380453731
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rosie Earle
- Age range: 7-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 95
- % eligible for free school meals: 27.9%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (less mixed than the Eastleigh average)
- English as an additional language: 4% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.8% a year (Eastleigh 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 57% moved to another school, 43% 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.
Supply and cover teaching
- Classes taught mainly by supply or cover staff for half a term or more: 1 (a full term or more: 1)
- Teaching posts vacant or only temporarily filled during the year: 1
- Days of supply or agency teacher cover: 95
- Data year: 2025/26 (from the school, under Freedom of Information)
Government figures only count teachers on contracts of 28 days or more, so a class covered by a run of supply teachers doesn't show up in them – which is why we ask schools directly.
Behaviour
Typical record 2025/26
Reading the numbers: higher figures below often mean a school records thoroughly and takes concerns seriously, rather than more incidents happening. A school reporting unusually low figures sometimes has a reporting gap rather than a problem-free intake. If a figure stands out, it's worth asking the school how it records.
- Data year: 2025/26
- Bullying incidents: 5
- Physical aggression / violence incidents: 26
- Child protection referrals: 10
- Safeguarding concerns: 194
- Racist incidents: 7
- Suspensions (fixed-term exclusions): 33
- Permanent exclusions: 0
- Sexual harassment or sexual violence between pupils (recorded incidents): 5 (led to a suspension or exclusion: 1; referred to social care or police: 0) – a higher number can mean a school takes reports seriously and records them carefully
Figures may show "<5" for some schools.
2nd of 2 junior schools in Eastleigh for behaviour
- #1Shakespeare Junior School80%
- #2Netley Abbey Junior School20%
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Across Hampshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 15 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 16 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 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 Hampshire (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: 6.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 16.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 33 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 21 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
This score reflects how openly the school responded to our Freedom of Information request. Schools that withhold information are rated lower — even the act of hiding data tells parents something about a school’s openness.
- Response
- Full response (+60)
- Timeliness
- Response date not recorded (+10)
- Optional data
- No optional data (+0)
Exemplary (80–100) · Cooperative (60–79) · Reluctant (40–59) · Obstructive (20–39) · Opaque (0–19)
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 57% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points below the Eastleigh average (63%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 51% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 51%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 71% · Writing 65% · Maths 66% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 66%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 102
- Based on: 86 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
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SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 15th of 23 junior and primary schools in the area
- =15Bursledon Junior School(CA)57%
- =15Cherbourg Primary School57%
- =15Netley Abbey Junior School57%
- =18St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School, Chandlers Ford55%
- =18Stoke Park Junior School55%
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6th of 8 junior schools in Eastleigh for Ofsted rating
- #4Fryern Junior SchoolGood
- #5Hiltingbury Junior SchoolGood
- #6Netley Abbey Junior SchoolGood
- #7Stoke Park Junior SchoolGood
- #8Townhill Junior SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,178 (2024-25)
9th of 10 junior schools in Eastleigh for spending per pupil
- #7Hiltingbury Junior School£6,248
- #8Fair Oak Junior School£6,208
- #9Netley Abbey Junior School£6,178
- #10Stoke Park Junior School£6,131
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Environment
Data received 2025/26
Accessibility
- Step-free for pupils, staff and visitors: Yes
- Overall accessibility: Fully
- Lifts for pupil use: Not needed -single-storey site
- Accessible toilets: Yes
- Changing Places facility: No
- Sensory room: No
Climate
- Mechanical ventilation: No
- Air cooling units: No
- Shaded outdoor areas: Some
- Heatwave procedures: Yes - written procedure
Technology
- Pupil devices (approx.): 90
- Pupils per device: 4:1
- Digital display in every classroom: Yes
- Interactive whiteboards: Yes - all classrooms
- 1:1 pupil device programme: No
- Coding / robotics equipment: Yes
- Assistive technology for SEND pupils: Yes