Sir Robert Hitcham Church of England Voluntary Aided School
Primary · Stowmarket · IP14 6PL
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 2 February 2023
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169 pupils · 80% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 12.7% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 1.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 10.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 124774
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place17 places offered · 17 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
33 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
92% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 8% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 2 February 2023: Good
- 27 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 3 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 6 June 2019: Requires improvement
- 28 March 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Debenham High School
- Helmingham Primary School and Nursery
- Wetheringsett Manor School
- Bedfield Church of England Primary School
- Wetheringsett Church of England Primary School
- Stonham Aspal Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Earl Soham Community Primary School
- Thorndon Church of England Primary School