Mount Pleasant Juniors
Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, SO14 0WZ
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- Aspire Community Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Emma Kerrigan Draper
- Constituency
- Southampton Test
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 360
- Pupils on roll
- 334
- URN
- 116092
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 02380223634
About this school
Mount Pleasant Juniors is a foundation primary school in Southampton. It teaches children aged 7 to 11 and has 334 pupils on roll.
Ofsted has inspected Mount Pleasant Juniors, and its latest judgement is set out below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Overall judgement at the last full inspection
This inspection took place under the previous framework, which gave a single overall grade. Ofsted now publishes report cards instead, so newer inspections of other schools will look different. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 81 | 81 | 77 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 47% | 42% | 47% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 2% | 1% | 4% |
| Expected standard in reading | 59% | 57% | 62% |
| Expected standard in maths | 65% | 64% | 61% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 63% | 58% | 58% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 101.0 | 101.0 | 103.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 102.0 | 102.0 | 103.0 |
| Reading progress | -1.00 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -0.20 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -0.80 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Mount Pleasant Juniors has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Southampton average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 47% | 55.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 42% | 51.3% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 47% | 53.9% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.3% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 7.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 356 |
| 2023/24 | 347 |
| 2024/25 | 347 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Mount Pleasant Juniors compares
Mount Pleasant Juniors ranked 35th of 45 primary schools in Southampton for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 18% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 24% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47% | 7.1% | 43.2% | 334 | — |
| Mount Pleasant Infants | — | 8.3% | 26.5% | 315 | 0.1 miles |
| Bevois Town Primary School | 53% | 4.6% | 42.9% | 410 | 0.3 miles |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery | 56% | 6.3% | 46.8% | 624 | 0.7 miles |
| Banister Primary School | 67% | 4.9% | 33.5% | 417 | 0.7 miles |
| Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School | 47% | 5.8% | 33.3% | 224 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 43.23%
- English as an additional language
- 79.5%
- Overall absence
- 7.07%
- Persistent absence
- 25.07%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Mount Pleasant Infants0.1 miles
Primary · Southampton
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Bevois Town Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Southampton
-
St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery0.7 miles
Primary · Southampton
-
Banister Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Southampton
-
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School0.7 miles
Primary · Southampton
Other schools in Southampton
Mount Pleasant Juniors ranks 68th of the 79 ranked primary schools in Southampton.
- Abbotswood Junior School Primary
- Banister Primary School Primary
- Bartley Church of England Junior School Primary
- Bassett Green Primary School Primary
- Beechwood Junior School Primary
- Berrywood Primary School Primary
- Bevois Town Primary School Primary
- Bishop's Waltham Junior School Primary
- Bishops Waltham Infant School Primary
- Bitterne Church of England Primary School Primary
- Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School Primary
- Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Mount Pleasant Juniors teach?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors teaches children aged 7 to 11. It is a primary school in Southampton.
- Who is the headteacher of Mount Pleasant Juniors?
- The headteacher of Mount Pleasant Juniors is Mrs Emma Kerrigan Draper, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- Has Mount Pleasant Juniors been inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Mount Pleasant Juniors, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How many pupils are at Mount Pleasant Juniors?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors has 334 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 7 to 11.
- Is Mount Pleasant Juniors full?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors has capacity for 360 pupils and 334 on roll (93%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Mount Pleasant Juniors a faith school?
- No. Mount Pleasant Juniors has no designated religious character.
- Does Mount Pleasant Juniors have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Mount Pleasant Juniors as having no nursery classes.
- Is Mount Pleasant Juniors part of an academy trust?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors is part of Aspire Community Trust. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Mount Pleasant Juniors's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 47% in 2022/23 and 47% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Mount Pleasant Juniors compare with other schools in Southampton?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors ranked 35th of 45 primary schools in Southampton for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 18% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 24% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Mount Pleasant Juniors's absence rate?
- Mount Pleasant Juniors's overall absence rate is 7.1% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Mount Pleasant Juniors's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Mount Pleasant Juniors's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.