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Woodbridge Road Academy

Special schoolAges 9–16Free school

Ipswich, IP4 2EB · Suffolk local authority

Ipswich’s School Grade C− better than 24% of towns in England

How full
89 pupils
148% of its 60 places
Free school meals
39%
39 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Woodbridge Road Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 89 pupils for 60 places
  • 39% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (IP4 2) sold for a median £211,400; Ipswich’s is £245,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 8 pupils

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

Attainment 8 8.1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Suffolk avg 43.4

20304050607080England avg 47.3Woodbridge Road 8.1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Suffolk avg 40%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Woodbridge Road 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2024/25
12.8
2025/26
8.1
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
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

75 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
2.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
50.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 23%Boys 77%
Its letter

No letter for Woodbridge Road Academy

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.

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Woodbridge Road Academy

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

Home prices in IP4 2, the school’s postcode sector

Ipswich property prices →
£211,400
median sale, 311 sales in 36 months · Ipswich £245,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025IP4 2Ipswich
IP4 2Ipswich

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£580K
Semi-detached
£268K
Terraced
£193K
Flat
£131K
IP4 2Ipswich

Homes in IP4 2 sell for a little under Ipswich’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

18 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−ABB+BC+C−DB+BC−BA−DC−B−BB−Woodbridge Road Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Ipswich, IP4 2EB

Woodbridge Road Academy: common questions

What is Woodbridge Road Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near Woodbridge Road Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, IP4 2, sold for a median £211,400 over the 36 months to August 2026 (311 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; Ipswich’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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