Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Ipswich · IP2 8PL · Suffolk
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.8 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 138373
Chantry Academy
Academy sponsor led · Ipswich · IP2 9LR
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,006
Local authority
Suffolk
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Ipswich, Suffolk, 1,006 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 38.6%. SEN provision includes: MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138373
Location
- Address
- Mallard Way
- Postcode
- IP2 9LR
- Town
- Ipswich
- County
- Suffolk
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- District
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,006
- Boys / girls
- 530 / 476
- School capacity
- 1,020
- Capacity fill
- 1,006 / 1,020 (99%)
- Free school meals
- 38.6%
- FSM pupils
- 388
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE ACTIVE LEARNING TRUST LIMITED
- Academy trust
- THE ACTIVE LEARNING TRUST LIMITED
- Sponsor
- The Active Learning Trust Limited
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
- Resourced provision
- SEN unit
- SEN unit places
- 24 on roll / 24 capacity
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Jeremy Rowe
- Telephone
- 01473687181
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-04-30
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 35.5
- Progress 8
- -0.5
- English & maths grade 5+
- 32%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 51%
- EBacc entry
- 17%
- EBacc APS
- 3.0