Coldfair Green Community Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Saxmundham, Suffolk·IP17 1UY
Composite score
27.3
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#13,785
National rank
#1540
In East of England
#211
In Suffolk
Top 93%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
20 first choices, 21 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
34
any preference, for 21 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9520221.0020231.2120241.0020250.952026

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

Every child who put Coldfair Green Community Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
148
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
4.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,101
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Coldfair Green Community Primary School is a primary school serving Saxmundham, Suffolk, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 148 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Coldfair Green Community Primary School 'Good'. 42% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 13.0 percentage points year on 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 primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 100 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Coldfair Green Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 21 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 19.2 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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