Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Suffolk
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry75 applications · 53 places offered · 51 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Suffolk median median 1.8
- 2025 2.0; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2024 1.7; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2023 1.8; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 1.7; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2021 1.9; Suffolk median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 1.5; Suffolk median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 1.7; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.7; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 1.8; Suffolk median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.2; Suffolk median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.8; Suffolk median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Suffolk median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Suffolk median
Dashed bars: as Carlton Colville Primary School (URN 124574), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 53 | 75 | 1.4 | 51 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 * | 32 | 63 | 2.0 | 31 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 * | 37 | 64 | 1.7 | 36 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2023 * | 48 | 85 | 1.8 | 48 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 52 | 88 | 1.7 | 50 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2021 * | 60 | 111 | 1.9 | 68 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 * | 58 | 86 | 1.5 | 56 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2019 * | 60 | 99 | 1.7 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 * | 52 | 90 | 1.7 | 49 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 109 | 1.8 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 132 | 2.2 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 * | 60 | 109 | 1.8 | 66 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2014 * | 59 | 127 | 2.2 | 60 | 1.02 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Carlton Colville Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place
- 1.6 km · SuffolkGood20221.7applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · Suffolk20262.0applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · SuffolkGood20221.7applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 2.8 km · SuffolkRemains Good20221.6applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 3.1 km · SuffolkStandards maintained20251.3applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 3.3 km · Suffolk20261.4applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 3.8 km · SuffolkGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 3.8 km · Suffolk20261.5applications per place 33%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 152283 · 935/2068
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 366 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2026
- Replaced
- Carlton Colville Primary School (URN 124574)
- Address
- Gisleham Road, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, NR33 8DG
- Local authority
- Suffolk · East Suffolk
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources