Broke Hall Community Primary School

Broke Hall Community Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating across all evaluated sections. The school has developed an ambitious curriculum for Year 1 to Year 6 with strong subject knowledge among staff, which supports pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), effectively. Pupils enjoy a positive school environment where they feel safe and are encouraged to excel in both academic and personal development. Additionally, this is the school's first inspection under the current framework, and it showcases significant strengths in pupil behavior and learning outcomes.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy coming to school and feel safe.
• Strong positive relationships among pupils and staff.
• Ambitious and well-planned curriculum for Years 1 to 6.
• Effective support for pupils with SEND.
• New phonics program is well delivered and effective in early reading.
• Pupils have the opportunity to explore a range of extracurricular activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Early years curriculum lacks clear planning in some subjects.
• Assessment is not effectively used to identify gaps in learning across foundation subjects.

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 Broke Hall Community Primary School attended 95.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 7.5% 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, 0.2% of pupils at Broke Hall Community 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 Broke Hall Community Primary School had 21.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.0% 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, 11.5% of pupils at Broke Hall Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.0% 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 2024–25 Broke Hall Community Primary School received £5,771 and spent £5,691 for each of its 601 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £576,000 (£959 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of The Children'S Endeavour Trust, income was £6,385 and spending £6,340 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Ipswich · Suffolk local authority: places and applications

Broke Hall Community Primary School is part of The Children'S Endeavour Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Springfield Junior School Ipswich
• Whitehouse Community Primary School Ipswich
• Bosmere Community Primary School Ipswich
• Combs Ford Primary School Stowmarket
• Freeman Community Primary School Stowmarket
• Abbot's Hall Community Primary School Stowmarket
• Chilton Community Primary School Stowmarket

What is Broke Hall Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Broke Hall Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2023.

When was Broke Hall Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Broke Hall Community Primary School was last inspected in July 2023.

How many pupils does Broke Hall Community Primary School have?

Broke Hall Community Primary School has 591 pupils on roll.

What age range does Broke Hall Community Primary School cover?

Broke Hall Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Broke Hall Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Broke Hall Community Primary School?

Broke Hall Community Primary School is at Chatsworth Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 5XD.