Lakenheath Community Primary School
Community school · Brandon · IP27 9DU
Ages 4–11 · 282 pupils · Suffolk
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
51%
Overall absence
5.6%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-02-14
- 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. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 231
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
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
35
Places offered
35
1st-preference offers
35
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 43
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 35
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- 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).
282 pupils · 315 places
- Pupils on roll
- 282
- Boys / girls
- 134 / 148
- School capacity
- 315
- Capacity fill
- 282 / 315 (90%)
- Free school meals
- 20.2%
- FSM pupils
- 57
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mr Michael Tingey
Location
- Address
- Mill Road, Lakenheath
- Postcode
- IP27 9DU
- Town
- Brandon
- County
- Suffolk
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- District
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; HI - Hearing Impairment; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health; MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty; PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- SEN unit
- SEN unit places
- 12 on roll / 12 capacity
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Brandon, Suffolk, 282 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 20.2%. SEN provision includes: SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty; VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability….
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Michael Tingey
- Telephone
- 01842860256