Living in Bury St Edmunds with children
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 41,279 people in 19,291 households; 23.5% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
45 schools: 36 state primary, 5 state secondary, 2 sixth form or college, 2 privateBury St Edmunds on the schools map →Every school in Bury St Edmunds, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (36)
State secondary schools (5)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sybil Andrews Academy | Good | 1st (1/42) in Suffolk | — |
| St Benedict's Catholic School | Standards maintained | Top 8% (3/42) in Suffolk | 6.381 miles (2026) |
| Thurston Community College | School remains Good | Top 36% (15/42) in Suffolk | — |
| Bury St Edmunds County High School | Ofsted report card | Top 48% (20/42) in Suffolk | — |
| King Edward VI CEVC School | Standards maintained | (25/42) in Suffolk | 5.19 miles (2026) |
Sixth forms and colleges (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbeygate Sixth Form College | Outstanding | Top 27% (5/19) in Suffolk | — |
| West Suffolk College | Outstanding | — | — |
Private schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culford School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | Top 34% (3/9) in Suffolk | — |
| South Lee School | Independent Schools Inspectorate: standards met | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (146 detached, 166 semi-detached, 202 terraced, 81 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Bury St Edmunds. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Bury St Edmunds →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 66% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 95%, on average across the 2,169 postcodes in IP33, IP31, IP28. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 6 outstanding; 29 good, or expected standard; 3 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.04 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 38 in Suffolk.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
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