Primary
Acton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Lambert Drive, Acton, Sudbury, CO10 0US
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 196 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.0
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.3
- All staff (FTE)
- 13.4
- Pupils per adult
- 12.5
- Pupils
- 168
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected April 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
74%
10 points above the Sudbury average (64% across 14 schools)
108.0
2.0 above the Sudbury average (106.0 across 14 schools)
4th of 15 by our score, among the primary schools in Sudbury we can score - 16 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 107 |
| Average reading score | 108 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 74% |
| Working at a higher standard | 21% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 75% |
| 23/24 | 68% |
| 24/25 | 74% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 107.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 108.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 107.0 |
Lambert Drive, Acton, Sudbury, CO10 0US
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Suffolk admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Jonathan Gray
- Address
- Lambert Drive, Acton, Sudbury, CO10 0US
- Telephone
- 01787377089
Other primary schools nearby
- Great Waldingfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School5.8/10
- Woodhall Primary School7.0/10
- Long Melford Church of England Primary School6.1/10
- Tudor Church of England Primary School, Sudbury5.6/10
- Pot Kiln Primary School5.3/10
- St Gregory Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School6.1/10