Castle Hill Junior School
Primary · Ipswich · IP1 6QD
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 5 March 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
288 pupils · 80% of 360 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 35.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 17.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 10.1% of pupils
- Website
- www.castlehillprimary.org.uk
- URN
- 141373
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
65 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, academy 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
- 5 March 2024: Good
- 11 May 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 23 February 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 12 February 2020: Requires improvement
- 20 September 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.