The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)
Primary performance (KS2 SATs)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
Every child who put The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England 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).
Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)
The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) is an all-through school covering ages 3–16, so it has two sets of results. The headline score above reflects its primary (KS2) results, ranked against other primaries; its GCSE (KS4) results — ranked separately against other secondaries — are shown here.
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Ofsted judgements
School profile
- Age range
- 3–16
- Pupils on roll
- 837
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“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.
DfE, KS4 destination measures.
Nearby primary schools
Location
Official sources
School overview
The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) is an all-through school serving Harleston, Norfolk, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 837 pupils aged 3 to 16 on roll. 59% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 24.0 percentage points year on year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 42.7, below the national average of 46. On our composite score, The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) ranks around the middle of primary schools nationally for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.
Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). At Key Stage 4, 30% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 17.2 pupils per teacher. The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England 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.