School profile
Queensway Junior Academy
Hillary Road, Thetford, IP24 3DP
Overview
Queensway Junior Academy is a state-funded school (academy sponsor led) in Thetford, East of England, for pupils aged 7–11. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Primary
- Age range
- Ages 7–11
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 271
- Pupils on roll
- 141
- URN
- 149636
Admissions
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Academy trust or group
- INSPIRATION TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 240
- Pupils on roll
- 151
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 89
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- 51%
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 37
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- 3%
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 37
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 10 February 2026 · Published 19 April 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 18 January 2022 · Published 23 March 2022
Overall effectiveness: Inadequate
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, Diamond Academy. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Hillary Road, Thetford, IP24 3DP
- Local authority
- Norfolk
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