Heath Primary School, Kesgrave
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Ipswich, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.055 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Heath Primary School, Kesgrave is a primary school in Ipswich, Suffolk for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 May 2023. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Heath Primary School, Kesgrave catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.055 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 2.055 miles away, the 21st longest of 48 Suffolk primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.55 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 65 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 56 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Suffolk schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Bell Lane, Kesgrave, Ipswich, IP5 1JG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 523 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “Pupils embody ‘The Heath Way,’ where ‘…everyone is valued and respected’.”
- “High expectations are set for all pupils in terms of their behaviour and attitudes towards their learning.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of subjects, the curriculum is at an earlier stage of development.”
- “Where this is the case, leaders have not clarified the precise knowledge, skills and vocabulary that pupils need to know and remember.”
- “When this happens teachers do not routinely plan activities that successfully build on pupils’ prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 58% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Suffolk.
- Cedarwood Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Gorseland Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Broke Hall Community Primary School 1.3 mi Good
- Birchwood Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Bealings School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Martlesham Primary Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good
- Britannia Primary School and Nursery 1.9 mi Good
- Rushmere Hall Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published