Bealings School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Woodbridge, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.914 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Bealings School is a primary school in Woodbridge, Suffolk for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 July 2024. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Bealings School 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 2025 | 0.914 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.914 miles away, the 4th shortest of 19 Suffolk primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 11 first-choice applications for 11 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 18.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Suffolk.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 13% 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
- Sandy Lane, Little Bealings, Woodbridge, IP13 6LW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 104 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 July 2024
Strengths
- “The curriculum takes pupils beyond the boundaries of this small rural school.”
- “Pupils enjoy the interesting questions posed by staff.”
- “The questions support pupils to link their learning together across different subjects.”
To improve
- “There has been recent turbulence in the school’s leadership.”
- “The school recognised that some curriculum areas were not working as well as they could be.”
- “While staff training aligns with the new changes, some staff are still getting to grips with the improved methods of teaching.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 September 2024 (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) | 53% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 11 offers in total, 11 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.
- Martlesham Primary Academy 1.2 mi School remains Good
- Gorseland Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Heath Primary School, Kesgrave 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Grundisburgh Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good
- Birchwood Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Kyson Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Cedarwood Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Woodbridge 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published