Sprites Primary Academy
Primary · Ipswich · IP2 0SA
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 8 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
406 pupils · 97% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 28.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 15.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- http://spritesacademy.org/
- URN
- 141985
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.84 first-choice applications per place50 places offered · 42 first-choice applications · usually has places
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)
56 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)
65% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 20% moved to another state school · 15% 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
- 8 November 2022: Good
- 1 March 2022: Taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 11 May 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
- 2 March 2021: Schools into Special Measures Visit 1
- 15 October 2019: Inadequate
- 29 January 2019: Taking effective action towards the removal of serious weaknesses designation
- 24 May 2018: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.