Kesgrave High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Ipswich, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
3.562 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kesgrave High School is a secondary school in Ipswich, Suffolk for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 December 2022. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Kesgrave High 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 | 3.562 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
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 3.562 miles from the school, the 9th shortest of 18 Suffolk secondary schools with a published last distance.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 338 first-choice applications for 294 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 4th highest of 42 Suffolk secondary schools.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 286 offers went to first-choice families and 52 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%).
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
- Main Road, Kesgrave, Ipswich, IP5 2PB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 1,875 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils receive a good education at this popular school at the heart of its community.”
- “Leaders advocate a culture of high expectations which pupils strive to meet.”
- “There is a culture of high aspirations for all.”
To improve
- “However, some of the systems used to analyse the impact of these improvements are at an early stage.”
- “However, the uptake of pupils studying modern foreign languages in key stage 4 is particularly low.”
- “Consequently, many pupils do not achieve the English baccalaureate.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 February 2023 (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) | 52% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49.7 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | 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: 338 first-preference applications, 294 offers in total, 286 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.
- St Alban's Catholic High School 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Copleston High School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Northgate High School 2.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Farlingaye High School 3.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ipswich Academy 3.5 mi Requires improvement
- Stoke High School - Ormiston Academy 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Ormiston Endeavour Academy 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chantry Academy 5.1 mi Good Last distance published