Secondary
Thurston Community College
Norton Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3PB
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1512 of 1800 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Sixth form
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 94.1
- All staff (FTE)
- 134.8
- Pupils per adult
- 11.1
- Pupils
- 1,499
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 March 2024
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)GCSE results
51%
2 points above the Bury St Edmunds average (49% across 5 schools)
46.9
1.4 below the Bury St Edmunds average (48.3 across 5 schools)
3rd of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Bury St Edmunds we can score - 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 46.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.11 |
| Entered the EBacc | 23% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 67% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 51% |
| A level average points per entry | 32.37 |
| A level students | 77 |
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 time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 48% |
| 22/23 | 43% |
| 23/24 | 42% |
| 24/25 | 51% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 38.5 |
| 22/23 | 31.1 |
| 23/24 | 35.9 |
| 24/25 | 32.4 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.14 |
| 22/23 | -0.14 |
| 23/24 | -0.16 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 48.0 |
| 22/23 | 45.8 |
| 23/24 | 44.4 |
| 24/25 | 46.9 |
Norton Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3PB
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 31 October, 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
- Principal
- Maéve Taylor
- Address
- Norton Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3PB
- Telephone
- 01359230885