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Churchill Special Free School

Special schoolAges 9–18Free schoolSixth form

Haverhill, CB9 0LB · Suffolk local authority

Haverhill’s School Grade C− better than 18% of towns in England

How full
82 pupils
87% of its 94 places
Free school meals
31%
31 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Churchill Special Free School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, October 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CB9 0) sold for a median £280,000; Haverhill’s is £270,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 12 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Churchill Special Free beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 29.9

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 1% of schools · Suffolk avg 43.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Churchill Special Free 29.9

Grade 5+ in English and maths 17%

A strong pass · higher than 1% of schools · Suffolk avg 40%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Churchill Special Free 17%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
25.9
2024/25
34.1
2025/26
29.9

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.11: 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).

Grade 4 or above in English and maths25%
England’s schools 66% · Suffolk 61% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

71 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.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
23.5%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 17%Boys 83%
Its letter

No letter for Churchill Special Free School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, October 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Churchill Special Free School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in CB9 0, the school’s postcode sector

Haverhill property prices →
£280,000
median sale, 234 sales in 36 months · Haverhill £270,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025CB9 0Haverhill
CB9 0Haverhill

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£348K
Semi-detached
£295K
Terraced
£225K
Flat
£150K
CB9 0Haverhill

Homes in CB9 0 sell for a little over Haverhill’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

8 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−C−B+DCB−C+C+Churchill Special Free Scho…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Haverhill, CB9 0LB

Churchill Special Free School: common questions

What is Churchill Special Free School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (October 2024).

How much do houses cost near Churchill Special Free School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CB9 0, sold for a median £280,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (234 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; Haverhill’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.