Secondary
Ipswich Academy
Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich, IP3 0SP
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 981 of 1230 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- Trust
- PARADIGM TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 56.1
- All staff (FTE)
- 73.1
- Pupils per adult
- 14.3
- Pupils
- 1,044
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 May 2024
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
March 2019
Previous framework
Good
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
GCSE results
30%
9 points below the Ipswich average (39% across 11 schools)
37.6
5.4 below the Ipswich average (43.0 across 11 schools)
11th of 11 by our score, among the secondary schools in Ipswich we can score - 14 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 | 37.6 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.23 |
| Entered the EBacc | 7% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 48% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 30% |
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 | 30% |
| 23/24 | 29% |
| 24/25 | 30% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.05 |
| 22/23 | -0.44 |
| 23/24 | -0.54 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 44.1 |
| 22/23 | 34.7 |
| 23/24 | 35.7 |
| 24/25 | 37.6 |
Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich, IP3 0SP
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
- Interim Principal
- Adam Wilding
- Address
- Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich, IP3 0SP
- Telephone
- 01473550040