Woodbridge Primary School

Woodbridge Primary School is a community primary school that inspectors found to be performing well across all judged areas. Pupils enjoy school, feel safe, attend well and behave positively. The school has high expectations, an ambitious and broad curriculum, and staff have strong subject knowledge. Pupils achieve well, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and reading is a high priority with an established phonics programme starting in the Nursery Year. Children make a strong start in the early years, and personal development is supported through community events, clubs, performances and trips. The school has improved since its previous inspection and has effective leadership and governance. Safeguarding arrangements are effective, staff are proud to work there, and the governing body understands the school’s strengths and areas for development. The headteacher was appointed in September 2024, and this was a graded inspection under section 5, so no overall effectiveness grade was given. There are two main areas for further improvement. In some subjects, the curriculum does not clearly map out the important concepts pupils need to know over time, so pupils can find it harder to connect current learning with prior learning. In some subjects, teachers do not use assessment well enough to identify gaps and inform next steps. Leaders also recognise that information shared with parents of pupils with SEND, including targets in personalised plans, could be improved.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe, enjoy school, attend well and behave positively.
• Staff have high expectations for pupils’ learning and behaviour.
• The curriculum is ambitious, broad and well taught in most subjects.
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND are accurately identified and supported to access the curriculum and make positive progress.
• Reading is a high priority, with an established phonics programme from Nursery.
• Children make a strong start in the early years and are well prepared for Year 1.
• Personal development is strong, with community events, clubs, performances and trips.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Staff are proud to work at the school and governance is effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, the curriculum has not mapped out the important concepts pupils need to know over time.
• In some subjects, assessment is not used effectively enough to address gaps and inform future learning.
• Information shared with parents of pupils with SEND, including targets in personalised plans, could be improved.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Woodbridge Primary School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.9% of pupils at Woodbridge Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Woodbridge Primary School had 23.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 7.2% of pupils at Woodbridge Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 1.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Woodbridge Primary School received £6,502 and spent £6,373 for each of its 206 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £84,000 (-£411 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Woodbridge Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Woodbridge Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Woodbridge Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Woodbridge Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Woodbridge Primary School have?

Woodbridge Primary School has 209 pupils on roll.

What age range does Woodbridge Primary School cover?

Woodbridge Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Woodbridge Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Woodbridge Primary School?

Woodbridge Primary School is at Wilkinson Way, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 1SS.