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St Edmund's Primary School

Heckfield Green, Hoxne, Eye, IP21 5AD · Suffolk
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

In 2026 everyone who applied for Reception was offered a place. Enter your postcode to check your distance.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Suffolk County Council offer-day figures, 2024 to 2026.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.
Ofsted: Standards maintained · November 2024Top 45% (106/237)About one first choice per place (2026)

Summary

The key facts, in one place
Primary (key stage 2) The league rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase on the newest year's DfE results, the same rank as on the Schools map. In England: 7,805th of 14,817 on the same figure. Band: Top 45%.
Top 45% (106/237)Rank among 237 Suffolk primaries with results, 2025 results (reading, writing and maths)
Inspection
Standards maintained, November 2024
Getting in
Nobody refused in 2026
Results
63% expected standard; 13% higher standard
Size
57 pupils; 7 places a year; classes of 14
Run by
Consortium Trust
Type
Academy converter
Ages
2 to 11 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Expected standard: 63%, against 59% in Suffolk.
  • Higher standard: 13%, against 7% in Suffolk.
  • Sessions missed: 5.6%, against 5.1% in Suffolk.
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At a glance

Against Suffolk and England
This schoolSuffolkEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Academic
Expected standardThe share of Year 6 pupils who reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths together, from the key stage 2 tests and teacher assessment.
63%
Better than Suffolk
Higher standardThe share who reached the higher standard in all three. A small year group can swing this a lot from one year to the next.
13%
Better than Suffolk
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
5.6%
Worse than Suffolk
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
10.4%
Better than Suffolk
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
0.0
Better than Suffolk
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
14.3
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
26%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
13.9
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.0
In line with Suffolk
Suffolk and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • 7 families put it first for 7 places; every one of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • Standards maintained Ofsted · inspected 5 November 2024
  • Reading, writing and maths: expected standard: 63% (England 62%) (county 59%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025
  • Reading, writing and maths: higher standard: 13% (England 8%) (county 7%) DfE school performance tables · 2024/2025

Daily life

  • Absence: 5.6% of sessions missed; 10% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 5.3% and 13% DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
  • Suspensions: 0 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 1); 0 permanent exclusions DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
  • Classes average 14.3 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 13.9 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 21 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 1 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (0 fatal, 0 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 5.2 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.7 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

Who runs it

  • Consortium Trust, with 14 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined August 2016
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 August 2016 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced St Edmund's Primary School (URN 124591) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 August 2016
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception202615—7none—
Reception202515—8none—
Reception202415—7none—

Source: Council offer-day figures: Suffolk County Council, 2024 to 2026. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception202677127
Reception202588148
Reception20247797
Reception20236686
Reception202255135
Reception202112111811
Reception202099129
Reception201966116
Reception20183363
Reception20176676

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2017 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Feeder school rules

Priority at secondary schools

Quoted word for word from the arrangements the school or council published. Check the quote against the school's own current admission policy before you rely on it: rules change each year.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Results

MeasureThis schoolEnglandCouncilYear
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard63%62%59%2024/2025
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard13%8%7%2024/2025

Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/2025.

League table place

TableLeague rank
Primary (key stage 2)Top 45% (106/237)

Source: DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase.

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
5 November 2024Ungraded visitStandards maintained

Source: Ofsted, 2024.

Suffolk league tableEvery school of this phase in the council on these results.See the table →

Daily life

Absence

YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/255.6%4.0%1.6%10%0.0%
2023/247.2%5.8%1.4%24%5.5%
2022/239.2%7.2%2.0%26%4.3%
Schools with a similar intake5.3%13%

Source: DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25. Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (20-30%), the median of 3218 schools.

Suspensions and exclusions

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/250.00.0%00
2023/240.00.0%00
2022/2340.97.0%291
Schools with a similar intake1.3

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size14.32025/26
Classes over 30 pupils0.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher13.9November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus21

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
20250
20240
20230
20220
20211

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 0 serious and 0 fatal in all; 1 involved a pedestrian, 0 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO25.22024
PM1011.92024
PM256.72024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals26%2025/26
First language other than English3.5%2025/26
SEN support12%2025/26
Education, health and care plan5.3%2025/26
Girls44%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Consortium Trust, with 14 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined August 2016
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 August 2016 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced St Edmund's Primary School (URN 124591) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 August 2016
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Suffolk County Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE school performance tables
  • DfE school performance tables: the newest year's results, place among the council's schools of the same phase
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Eye and the Suffolk league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.