Stradbroke High School

Academy converter·Secondary school Eye, Suffolk·IP21 5JN
Composite score
55.4
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#1,845
National rank
#205
In East of England
#19
In Suffolk
Top 58%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
47%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
73%
% EBacc grade 5+
9%
EBacc average points score
4.02

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
33 first choices, 35 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
66
any preference, for 35 places
Applications from another council area
17%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9020220.9820230.9820240.9520250.942026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Stradbroke High School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
339
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
1.5%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
7.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
24.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,050
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
93%
75 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
8%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Stradbroke High School at a glance

Located in Eye, Suffolk, Stradbroke High School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 339 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 44.3 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.6 points compared with the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

47% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 73% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Stradbroke High School their first choice was offered one of its 35 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.8%. There are about 15.4 pupils per teacher. Stradbroke High School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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