The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)
Harleston, IP20 9DD · Norfolk local authority
Harleston’s School Grade C− better than 19% of towns in England
What stands out about The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)
- Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 15% of England’s primary schools
- Its own letter, C+: GCSE results better than 42% of England’s secondary schools
- 48% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14 points below England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 28)
- Progress 8 of +0.04 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (IP20 9) sold for a median £263,750; Harleston’s is £255,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 88 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 CofE School) beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 45.9
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 48% of schools · Norfolk avg 44.9
Grade 5+ in English and maths 40%
A strong pass · higher than 36% of schools · Norfolk avg 42%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.04: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 18 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
Reading, writing and maths 48%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 14% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Norfolk avg 53%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 103 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2023 (1), 2025 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The Diocese of Norwich St Benet'S Multi-Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Norfolk council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Harleston and Norfolk, side by side
2025/26All 52 graded secondaries in Norfolk. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Harleston’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre Dame High School, Norwich | A | 14% | 57 |
| Wymondham College | A | 10% | 56.7 |
| Hethersett Academy | A | 14% | 55.5 |
| Wymondham High Academy | A− | 19% | 52.9 |
| Jane Austen College | A− | 28% | 52.2 |
| Wayland Academy | A− | 28% | 50.2 |
| Broadland High Ormiston Academy | B+ | 21% | 49.3 |
| Reepham High School and College | B+ | 22% | 49.2 |
| City of Norwich School, An Ormiston Academy | B+ | 28% | 49.2 |
| Aylsham High School | B+ | 20% | 48.6 |
| Long Stratton High School | B+ | 20% | 48.5 |
| Caister Academy | B− | 39% | 47.9 |
| Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form | B | 17% | 47.9 |
| Cromer Academy | B | 26% | 47.7 |
| Framingham Earl High School | B− | 15% | 47.3 |
| Taverham High School | B− | 15% | 46.4 |
| Hobart High School | B− | 25% | 46.3 |
| Springwood High School | B− | 18% | 46.2 |
| Hewett Academy | B | 33% | 46.1 |
| The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) | C+ | 24% | 45.9 |
| Sprowston Community Academy | B | 22% | 45.8 |
| Ormiston Venture Academy | B− | 40% | 45.7 |
| Flegg High Ormiston Academy | B− | 26% | 45.7 |
| Old Buckenham High School | C+ | 26% | 45.2 |
| The Thetford Academy | B− | 32% | 44.9 |
| Sheringham High School | C | 26% | 44.6 |
| Acle Academy | C+ | 28% | 44.5 |
| Litcham School | C | 20% | 44.1 |
| North Walsham High School | C | 33% | 44.1 |
| The Nicholas Hamond Academy | C | 29% | 43.7 |
| St Clement's High School | C | 28% | 43.6 |
| Marshland High School | C+ | 28% | 43.3 |
| Dereham Neatherd High School | C+ | 22% | 43.1 |
| Diss High School | C | 25% | 43 |
| Attleborough Academy | C | 21% | 42.8 |
| Ormiston Victory Academy | C | 27% | 42.6 |
| Downham Market Academy | C− | 27% | 42.5 |
| Hellesdon High School | C | 27% | 42 |
| Lynn Grove Academy | C− | 34% | 41.8 |
| Great Yarmouth Charter Academy | C | 56% | 41.8 |
| Fakenham Academy | C− | 26% | 41.4 |
| Smithdon High School | C | 27% | 41.3 |
| King Edward VII Academy | C | 27% | 41.1 |
| King's Lynn Academy | C | 32% | 41 |
| Northgate High School | C− | 28% | 40.6 |
| Stalham High School | C | 37% | 40.5 |
| Alderman Peel High School | D | 26% | 39.6 |
| Sewell Park Academy | D | 44% | 37.6 |
| Iceni Secondary Academy | D | 23% | 37.3 |
| Cliff Park Ormiston Academy | D | 45% | 36.8 |
| City Academy Norwich | D | 57% | 36.2 |
| The Open Academy | D− | 40% | 33.1 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025837 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025.
Living near The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in IP20 9, the school’s postcode sector
Harleston property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in IP20 9 sell for a little over Harleston’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Location
Directions ↗Harleston, IP20 9DD
State schools near The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)
The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.
The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School): common questions
Is The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) a good school?
By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 42% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C+), with an Attainment 8 of 45.9 and 40% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025.
How hard is it to get into The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)?
For September 2026, 28 families put The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School) first and all of them were offered a place; 29 places were offered in all.
What is The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).
How much do houses cost near The Harleston Sancroft Academy (a 3-16 Church of England School)?
Homes in its postcode sector, IP20 9, sold for a median £263,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (288 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Harleston’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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