East Bergholt High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Colchester, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
6.691 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
East Bergholt High School is a secondary school in Colchester, Suffolk for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 June 2023. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
East Bergholt 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 | 6.691 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 for 2026 lived 6.691 miles away, the 5th longest of 18 Suffolk secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 194 first-choice applications for 189 offers; 183 offers went to first-choice families, and 11 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 176 of the 427 applications came from families living outside Suffolk, and 29 offers went to them.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above: 48% of pupils (England 45%), the 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
- Heath Road, East Bergholt, Colchester, CO7 6RJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 902 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 June 2023
Strengths
- “There are high expectations for pupils’ achievement and behaviour.”
- “Pupils benefit from newly adopted approaches to how the curriculum is taught and they learn well.”
- “Pupils understand individual difference, showing respect for other people’s characteristics and beliefs.”
To improve
- “There are still occasions when this is not the case.”
- “This impacts negatively on some pupils’ enjoyment of school.”
- “However, leaders have not been clear enough about how bullying is dealt with and about how and when to pass on different types of worry.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 July 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) | 48% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.8 | 46 |
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: 194 first-preference applications, 189 offers in total, 183 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.
- Hadleigh High School 5.1 mi Standards maintained
- Holbrook Academy 5.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Chantry Academy 6.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Stoke High School - Ormiston Academy 6.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Ipswich Academy 7.7 mi Requires improvement
- Westbourne Academy 7.7 mi Not judged
- Ormiston Endeavour Academy 8.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Copleston High School 8.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published