Secondary
St Alban's Catholic High School
Digby Road, Ipswich, IP4 3NJ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 967 of 1020 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Religious character
- Yes
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Diocese
- Diocese of East Anglia
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 56.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 79.3
- Pupils per adult
- 12.8
- Pupils
- 1,016
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
SafeguardingMet
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
42%
3 points above the Ipswich average (39% across 11 schools)
46.9
3.9 above the Ipswich average (43.0 across 11 schools)
4th 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 | 46.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.99 |
| Entered the EBacc | 23% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 65% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% |
| A level average points per entry | 31.65 |
| A level students | 51 |
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 | 51% |
| 22/23 | 46% |
| 23/24 | 51% |
| 24/25 | 42% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 35.0 |
| 22/23 | 25.7 |
| 23/24 | 26.5 |
| 24/25 | 31.6 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.20 |
| 22/23 | +0.10 |
| 23/24 | +0.13 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 51.1 |
| 22/23 | 47.7 |
| 23/24 | 48.9 |
| 24/25 | 46.9 |
Digby Road, Ipswich, IP4 3NJ
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
- Simon Corless
- Address
- Digby Road, Ipswich, IP4 3NJ
- Telephone
- 01473726178