The Iver Village Junior School
General Information
- Address: High Street, Iver, SL0 9QA – View on map
- Phone: 01753653059
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Jill Digweed
- 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: 73
- % eligible for free school meals: 33.2%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Buckinghamshire average)
- English as an additional language: 17% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14.8% a year (Buckinghamshire 16.7%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 68% moved to another school, 32% 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 Buckinghamshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 21 (0.5 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 8 (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 Buckinghamshire, 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: 6.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Speech, language and communication 8 places · 7 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 27.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 13.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 23 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 14 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2016 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 86% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 24% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 21 percentage points above the Buckinghamshire average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 75% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 75%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 88% · Writing 90% · Maths 95% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 109, maths 110
- Based on: 42 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: joint 8th of 141 junior and primary schools in the area
- =6Seer Green Church of England School87%
- =8Highworth Combined School and Nursery86%
- =8The Iver Village Junior School86%
- #10Elangeni School85%
- #11Castlefield School84%
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14th of 17 junior schools in Buckinghamshire for Ofsted rating
- #12Iver Heath Junior SchoolGood
- #13Swanbourne Church of England VA SchoolGood
- #14The Iver Village Junior SchoolGood
- #15Tylers Green Middle SchoolGood
- #16Wendover Church of England Junior SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,873 (2024-25)
1st of 22 junior schools in Buckinghamshire for spending per pupil
- #1The Iver Village Junior School£7,873
- #2Swanbourne Church of England VA School£7,515
- #3Carrington Junior School£7,506
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