Castle Hill Infant School

Academy sponsor led·Infant school Ipswich, Suffolk·IP1 6QD

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Castle Hill Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

68 first choices, 77 places

First choices per place

0.88

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

136

any preference, for 77 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8820220.9320231.0020240.8620250.882026

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

Every child who put Castle Hill Infant 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 220
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

23.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

16.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

10.4%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

15.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

19.0%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,186

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Castle Hill Junior School Ipswich · 0.0 mi 44.1 Dale Hall Community Primary School Ipswich · 0.4 mi 47.1 St Pancras Catholic Primary School Ipswich · 0.5 mi 50.3 The Beeches Community Primary School Ipswich · 0.5 mi 32.5 Springfield Junior School Ipswich · 0.9 mi 37.7 Whitehouse Community Primary School Ipswich · 1.0 mi 38.1 Handford Hall Primary School Ipswich · 1.3 mi 62.5 St Matthew's Church of England Primary School, Ipswich Ipswich · 1.6 mi 32.9

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Castle Hill Infant School at a glance

Located in Ipswich, Suffolk, Castle Hill Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 220 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Castle Hill Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 68 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 15.8 pupils per teacher. Castle Hill Infant 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.