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Castle Hill Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Sponsored academy
Dryden Road, Ipswich IP1 6QD · castlehillprimary.org.uk · 01473 741758
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 251
- 93% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 22.3%
- First language not English
- 15.9%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Asset Education
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 68 families put the school first and 77 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 77 | 68 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 84 | 72 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 63 | 63 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 71 | 66 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 66 | 58 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 4 December 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Castle Hill Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 3 Dec 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jan 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124663), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jan 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 2009Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124663)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (40 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 40
- 18% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 12% who had a child bullied
based on 13 parents (33%) with SEND