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Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Rowley Drive, Newmarket CB8 0PU · 01638 663214
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2019
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 65%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Suffolk 59%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 332
- 79% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 25.3%
- First language not English
- 31.9%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 43 families put the school first and 47 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 | 47 | 43 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 44 | 36 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 46 | 31 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 34 | 30 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 65% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 11% the higher standard. Across Suffolk it was 59%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲65% | 62% | ||
| ▲11% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 124546)
Ofsted
Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 6 November 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jan 2025 found: Improved significantly.
- Outcome
- Improved significantly
- Inspected
- 21 Jan 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 124546), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Dec 2015Requires improvement
Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 124546)
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (60 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 60
- 18% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 73% who raised concerns
based on the 40% who had a child bullied
based on 16 parents (27%) with SEND