Castle Manor Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Haverhill, Suffolk·CB9 9JE
Composite score
50.4
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#2,478
National rank
#274
In East of England
#31
In Suffolk
Top 78%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
40.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
32%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
51%
% EBacc grade 5+
3%
EBacc average points score
3.04

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
84%
161 first choices, 146 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
265
any preference, for 146 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9920220.9720230.9820240.9420251.102026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Castle Manor Academy yet. Suffolk does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
757
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
29.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
14.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
7.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
31.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,625
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
92%
137 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
88%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Castle Manor Academy at a glance

Located in Haverhill, Suffolk, Castle Manor Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 757 pupils aged 11 to 16. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 40.3, below the national average of 46. That is down 0.8 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

32% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 51% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 84% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (161 first choices for 146 places). After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.1%. There are about 19.3 pupils per teacher. Castle Manor Academy 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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