Capel St Mary Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Ipswich, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.095 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Capel St Mary Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in Ipswich, Suffolk for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 May 2025. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Capel St Mary 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 | 3.095 mi |
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 2025 lived 3.095 miles away, the 10th longest of 19 Suffolk primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 24 first-choice applications for 25 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2024/25 the reading, writing and maths result was 4th highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Suffolk that have results.
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
- The Street, Capel St Mary, Ipswich, IP9 2EG
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 273 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this warm and welcoming school.”
- “They embody the ‘Capel’ values of ‘care, achieve, persevere, enjoy, learn’.”
- “Pupils rise to the school’s high expectations of their behaviour.”
To improve
- “On a few occasions, teachers do not provide sufficiently clear explanations as to exactly how to complete a task or calculation.”
- “Sometimes, tasks are not designed to give pupils enough opportunity to apply and extend their knowledge to more complex tasks and calculations.”
- “As a result, while most pupils achieve well, some pupils do not achieve as highly as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 June 2025 (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) | 63% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 24 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.
- Bentley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good
- East Bergholt Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Copdock Primary School 2.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Tattingstone Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.9 mi Standards maintained
- Brooklands Primary School 3.0 mi Good
- Hintlesham and Chattisham Church of England Primary School 3.2 mi Good
- Stratford St Mary Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Gusford Community Primary School 3.9 mi Not judged