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Piper's Vale Primary - A Paradigm Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Raeburn Road, Ipswich IP3 0EW · pipersvaleacademy.paradigmtrust.org · 01473 320413
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2022
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 44%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Suffolk 59%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 361
- 76% of 472 places
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 51.2%
- First language not English
- 31.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Paradigm Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 39 families put the school first and 39 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 | 39 | 39 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 38 | 37 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 28 | 26 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 44% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 2% 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 | |||
| ▼44% | 62% | ||
| ▼2% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼102 | 106 | ||
| ▼98 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 132836)
Ofsted
Piper's Vale Primary - A Paradigm Academy was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 15 February 2022, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 15 Feb 2022
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Nov 2016
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 132836), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2016Requires improvement
Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 132836)
What parents said
50% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (12 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 50%
- Replies
- 12
- 4% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 75% who raised concerns
based on the 58% who had a child bullied