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Henley Primary School

Primary · Ipswich · IP6 0QX

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Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: OutstandingLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 15 October 2024

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At a glance

89 pupils · 85% of 105 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
4–11
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Free school meals
6.7% of pupils
English as additional language
3.3% of pupils
SEN support
14.1% of pupils
EHC plan
3.3% of pupils
Website
www.henleyprimaryschool.net
URN
144850

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

1.00 first-choice applications per place

13 places offered · 13 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

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.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 3.337 miles

measured in a straight line.

Cutoff distance by entry year

22
24
25

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

15 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
67%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
0%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
105
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school67%
Median of its 12 closest peers74.5%
Suffolk average59.9%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Shocklach Oviatt CofE Primary SchoolMalpas · 179 miles awayNo current grade0%
Thornton in Craven Community Primary SchoolThornton-in-Craven · 186 miles awayGood85%
Farrington Gurney Church of England Primary SchoolBristol · 168 miles awayNo current grade60%
Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary SchoolYork · 158 miles awayGood65%
Bishop Monkton Church of England Primary SchoolHarrogate · 175 miles awayGood80%
Great Corby School and NurseryCarlisle · 251 miles awayGood80%
St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, FangfossYork · 152 miles awayGood86%
Riston Church of England Primary AcademyHull · 135 miles awayGood69%
Yattendon C.E. Primary SchoolThatcham · 110 miles awayGood80%
Hunton and Arrathorne Community Primary SchoolBedale · 193 miles awayGood36%
Claverley CofE Primary SchoolWolverhampton · 149 miles awayNo current grade81%
Slingsby Community Primary SchoolYork · 166 miles awayGood64%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
4.7%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
7.9%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
22.8
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

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

This school£7,076
Typical primary school£6,959

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

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
8/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
8/10less deprived than most of England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher30.7%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications17.1%18.1%
In managerial or professional work36.6%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways10.9%18.1%
Residents in very good health48.1%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier83.7%62.3%
Social housing6.7%17.1%
Privately rented9.5%20.5%
Detached houses67.9%22.9%
Flats1.3%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms37.3%21.1%
Households with no car or van9.1%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01030046 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,423 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£430,00011 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£357,500–£496,000the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (7)£492,500

Homes around this school are dearer than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Inside the Reception cutoff distance (4.25 km, 2022 entry): 411 sales, median £300,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
0a rural school averages 0.3
Collisions at school-run times
1a rural school averages 0.7
All reported collisions
3a rural school averages 3.4
Of those, serious or fatal
1a rural school averages 0.9

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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