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Helmingham Primary School and Nursery

PrimaryAges 2–11Academy

near Otley, IP14 6EX · Suffolk local authority

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Getting in
1/1
first choices offered a place, 2025 (England: 93%)
How full
30 pupils
33% of its 90 places
Free school meals
13%
13 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Helmingham Primary School and Nursery

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 30 pupils for 90 places
  • 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Outside any built-up area: listed with Otley, the nearest town
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2025 (1 of 1)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (IP14 6) sold for a median £365,000; Otley’s is £450,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Helmingham Primary School and Nursery?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2025.

1
families put it first for September 2025
1
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
2020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Consortium Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Suffolk council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2025

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

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100% got their first choice
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100% got their first choice
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Helmingham Primary School and Nursery
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

20 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
15%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
5.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 45%Boys 55%
Its letter

No letter for Helmingham Primary School and Nursery

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

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.

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Early yearsNeeds attention

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Helmingham Primary School and Nursery

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

Home prices in IP14 6, the school’s postcode sector

Otley property prices →
£365,000
median sale, 164 sales in 36 months · Otley £450,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K2010201520202025IP14 6Otley
IP14 6Otley

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£461K
Semi-detached
£308K
Terraced
£245K
IP14 6Otley

Homes in IP14 6 sell for well under Otley’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

near Otley, IP14 6EX

Nearby

Primary schools near Helmingham Primary School and Nursery

The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.

Helmingham Primary School and Nursery: common questions

How hard is it to get into Helmingham Primary School and Nursery?

For September 2025, 1 families put Helmingham Primary School and Nursery first and all of them were offered a place; 1 places were offered in all.

What is Helmingham Primary School and Nursery’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Helmingham Primary School and Nursery?

Homes in its postcode sector, IP14 6, sold for a median £365,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (164 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; Otley’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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