Bramford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Ipswich, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.837 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Bramford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in Ipswich, Suffolk for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 March 2023. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Bramford Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary 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 | 1.837 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2025 last distance offered was 1.837 miles, the 7th shortest of 19 Suffolk primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle figure 3.10 miles).
- In 2024/25, 54% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 39 first-choice applications for 44 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 18.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 30.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Suffolk.
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
- Duckamere, Bramford, Ipswich, IP8 4AH
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 236 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Bramford.”
- “They enjoy the subjects they learn and work hard to achieve the high expectations staff set for them.”
- “They are motivated by being identified as ‘active listeners’ and for demonstrating their ‘particles’, such as creativity and perseverance.”
To improve
- “Some pupils need additional support with this.”
- “In some subject areas, curriculum planning focuses more on the activities pupils will complete and less on the knowledge they must learn and remember.”
- “In these instances, pupils remember what they have done, rather than what they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 May 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) | 54% | 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: 39 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 39 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.
- Sproughton Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Whitehouse Community Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained
- The Beeches Community Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good
- St Pancras Catholic Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Springfield Infant School and Nursery 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Springfield Junior School 1.7 mi Not judged
- Handford Hall Primary School 1.9 mi Good
- Castle Hill Infant School 2.0 mi Standards maintained