OA - Suffolk
Stowmarket, IP14 1SZ · Suffolk local authority
Stowmarket’s School Grade C better than 28% of towns in England
What stands out about OA - Suffolk
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Room to spare: 2 pupils for 54 places
- 50% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, January 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Homes in its postcode sector (IP14 1) sold for a median £275,000; Stowmarket’s is £260,000
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202510 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
No letter for OA - Suffolk
Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t 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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, January 2023.
Living near OA - Suffolk
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in IP14 1, the school’s postcode sector
Stowmarket property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in IP14 1 sell for a little over Stowmarket’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
7 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Stowmarket, IP14 1SZ
OA - Suffolk: common questions
What is OA - Suffolk’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2023).
How much do houses cost near OA - Suffolk?
Homes in its postcode sector, IP14 1, sold for a median £275,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (705 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; Stowmarket’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.