Abbots Green Primary Academy
Ofsted: GoodAcademy sponsor led · Primary
Bury St Edmunds · IP32 7PJ · Suffolk
Ages 2–11
- KS279%
- Absence5.5%
- FSM12.5%
- Demand1.00
1.8 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 142547
Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter · Bury St Edmunds · IP31 2RJ
Ages 5–11 · 188 pupils · Suffolk
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
64%
Overall absence
4.3%
Admissions demand
0.89 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-11-14
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)64%
Higher standard (RWM)18%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence4.3%
Persistent absence (10%+)11.5%
Unauthorised0.9%
- Authorised absence
- 3.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 174
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
0.89 · Often has places
1st preferences
16
Places offered
18
1st-preference offers
16
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 48
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 18
- Applications from outside LA
- 1
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill90%
188 pupils · 210 places
- Pupils on roll
- 188
- Boys / girls
- 97 / 91
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 188 / 210 (90%)
- Free school meals
- 8.5%
- FSM pupils
- 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: THEDWASTRE EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- THEDWASTRE EDUCATION TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mrs Claire Ratley
Location
- Address
- School Road, Great Barton
- Postcode
- IP31 2RJ
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- County
- Suffolk
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- District
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 5–11, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 188 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 8.5%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Sebert Wood Community Primary School
Ofsted: GoodCommunity school · Primary
Bury St Edmunds · IP32 7EG · Suffolk
Ages 3–11
- KS258%
- Absence5.3%
- FSM11.5%
- Demand1.00
2.3 miles away
Tollgate Primary School
Ofsted: GoodAcademy sponsor led · Primary
Bury St Edmunds · IP32 6DG · Suffolk
Ages 3–11
- KS267%
- Absence7.3%
- FSM29.3%
- Demand0.94
2.9 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Claire Ratley
- Telephone
- 01284787353