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Hadleigh High School
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–16 · Academy
Highlands Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich IP7 5HU · hadleighhigh.net · 01473 823496
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Oct 2024
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 43.6
- average Attainment 8 score. Suffolk 42.8, England 46
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 712
- 82% of 870 places
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 23.1%
- First language not English
- 4.5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, 120 families put the school first and 128 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 128 | 120 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 144 | 138 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 142 | 135 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 151 | 141 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 145 | 137 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 43.6, and 40.4% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Suffolk it was 42.8, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼43.6 | 46.0 | ||
| ▼40.4% | 45.4% | ||
| ●63.5% | 64.8% | ||
| ▼25.6% | 40.5% | ||
| ▼3.79 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 54.5 | −1.7 |
| Sixth form college | 1.2 | −1 |
| Further education | 27.3 | +3.9 |
| Other education | 0.6 | −2.3 |
| Apprenticeship | 5.5 | +1.1 |
| Employment | 3 | −2.1 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 4.8 | +0.4 |
| Activity not captured | 3 | +1.5 |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 23 October 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Hadleigh High School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 22 Oct 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Jan 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jan 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Oct 2015Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective May 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
79% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (118 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 79%
- Replies
- 118
- 16% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 78% who raised concerns
based on the 28% who had a child bullied
based on 24 parents (20%) with SEND