Riverview Junior School
Cimba Wood, Gravesend, DA12 4SD
This school is closed (it closed in August 2025).
It was replaced by The Riverview Academy. That page has the school's current information.
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 7 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mr James Kendall
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Constituency
- Gravesham
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 480
- Pupils on roll
- 494
- URN
- 145117
- Local authority
- Kent
About this school
Riverview Junior School was a primary academy in Gravesend. It taught children aged 7 to 11 and had 494 pupils on roll.
Ofsted did not inspect it under the current framework.
Ofsted judgement
Riverview Junior School has not been inspected by Ofsted yet. It opened in its current form in October 2017, and new or converted schools usually wait a few years for their first inspection.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 128 | 123 | 121 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 49% | 53% | 57% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 2% | 2% | 4% |
| Expected standard in reading | 69% | 62% | 69% |
| Expected standard in maths | 60% | 61% | 63% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 58% | 57% | 64% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 104.0 | 102.0 | 104.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 102.0 | 102.0 | 102.0 |
| Reading progress | -2.70 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -2.30 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -3.70 | - | - |
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 Riverview Junior School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Kent average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 49% | 58.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 53% | 60.2% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 57% | 60.8% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 5.2% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 5.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 504 |
| 2023/24 | 498 |
| 2024/25 | 494 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Riverview Junior School compares
Its KS2 result was higher than 34% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 56% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 57% | 5.1% | 29.8% | 494 | — |
| The Riverview Academy | — | 6.2% | 20.4% | 784 | 0.0 miles |
| Tymberwood Academy | 69% | 7.5% | 48% | 394 | 0.3 miles |
| Singlewell Primary School | 63% | 4.5% | 18.5% | 402 | 0.6 miles |
| King's Farm Primary School | 69% | 6.6% | 58.1% | 468 | 0.6 miles |
| Westcourt Primary School | 47% | 7.5% | 52.6% | 285 | 0.8 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)
- 29.76%
- English as an additional language
- 15.8%
- Overall absence
- 5.13%
- Persistent absence
- 12.52%
Location
Nearby schools
-
The Riverview Academy0.0 miles
Primary · Gravesend
-
Tymberwood Academy0.3 miles
Primary · Gravesend
-
Singlewell Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Gravesend
-
King's Farm Primary School0.6 miles
Primary · Gravesend
-
Westcourt Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Gravesend
Other schools in Gravesend
- Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School Primary
- Chantry Community Primary School Primary
- Cobham Primary School Primary
- Copperfield Academy Primary
- Culverstone Green Primary School Primary
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School Primary
- Istead Rise Primary School Primary
- King's Farm Primary School Primary
- Lawn Primary School Primary
- Meopham Community Academy Primary
- Painters Ash Primary School Primary
- Sedley's Church of England Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Riverview Junior School teach?
- Riverview Junior School taught children aged 7 to 11. It was a primary school in Gravesend.
- Has Riverview Junior School been inspected?
- Ofsted has not inspected Riverview Junior School under its current framework, so no current judgement is shown. That is common for newer schools and is not a mark against a school.
- How big is Riverview Junior School?
- Riverview Junior School had 494 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 7 to 11.
- How have Riverview Junior School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 49% in 2022/23 and 57% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- What are Riverview Junior School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Riverview Junior School'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 31 August 2025.