Hartismere School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Eye, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
5.561 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hartismere School is a secondary school in Eye, Suffolk for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Hartismere 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 5.561 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last Year 7 child offered a place lived 5.561 miles away, the 8th longest of 18 Suffolk secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, there were 159 first-choice applications for 151 offers; 150 offers went to first-choice families and 9 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- GCSE English and maths 2024/25: 58% got grade 5 or above (England 45%), the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Castleton Way, Eye, IP23 7BL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 1,062 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “The school is a calm, harmonious and welcoming community.”
- “Staff prioritise the well-being of pupils, providing timely and tenacious support for them, including students in the sixth form.”
- “Staff ensure that pupils are happy, respectful and well cared for in line with the school’s ethos of ‘learn and serve’.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, teachers do not precisely check how well pupils are learning.”
- “Pupils who need extra help find the work too hard.”
- “Some pupils who are ready to apply their learning in more complex ways, can find the work too easy.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 58% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 53 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 159 first-preference applications, 151 offers in total, 150 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Suffolk.
- Stradbroke High School 5.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Debenham High School 7.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Stowupland High School 9.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Thomas Mills High School & Sixth Form 10.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Stowmarket High School 11.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ixworth High School 12.6 mi Not judged
- Thurston Community College 14.6 mi School remains Good
- Claydon High School 15.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published