Howard Community Academy

Howard Community Academy at a glance

Located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Howard Community Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 196 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 36% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 12.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 103 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Howard Community Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 20 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 8.0%. There are about 23.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 47% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Howard Community 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.