Stowmarket High School

Type Secondary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 11-18
Religion Does not apply
Address Onehouse Road
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 1QR
Phone 01449613541
Reference Number 145055

General Makeup

Number of pupils 901
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 50.83%
Girls: 49.17%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 20.3%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 4.9%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 24.2

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 94 94 188
8 88 91 179
9 87 96 183
10 103 83 186
11 86 79 165
12 Unknown Unknown Unknown
13 Unknown Unknown Unknown

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 86.8%
White, Other 4%
Unclassified 3%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.8%
White & Asian 1%
Indian 0.9%
White & Black (African) 0.7%
African 0.4%
Mixed, Other 0.3%
Asian, Other 0.3%
Caribbean 0.1%

Overall Ofsted Rating Requires Improvement
 >  Quality of education Requires Improvement
  >  Behaviour & Attitude Requires Improvement
  >  Personal Development Good
  >  Leadership & Management Requires Improvement
Last Inspection Date 2024-04-29
Date Description Report
2024-03-27 Monitoring visit Monitoring visit
2023-01-19 School inspection: School inspection:

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
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GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 47% Unlock Unlock
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 64.6% Unlock Unlock

Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

School Score Percentile (loc) Percentile (nationwide)
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Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

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Progress 8 Score

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

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2024 Admissions

Number of Applications Number of Offers
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Second Preference 73 4
Third Preference 12 0
From another Local Authority 0 0

Previous Years

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Destinations after GCSE's

Data relates to students who sat their GCSE's in 2022 and was last updated in May 2024.

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Ringshall School
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Finborough School
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