Laureate Community Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Newmarket, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.195 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
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Laureate Community Academy is a primary school in Newmarket, Suffolk for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 14 January 2025. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Laureate Community Academy 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 | 0.195 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.195 miles away, the shortest of the 19 Suffolk primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 16 first-choice applications for 20 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Exning Road, Newmarket, CB8 0AN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 239 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 14 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff at Laureate Community Academy shine.”
- “They are proud of their school.”
- “Pupils attend school every day because they do not want to miss their peers or new learning.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, this is not accurate enough, and pupils do not have time to respond.”
- “As a result, pupils do not learn as much as they could in some subjects.”
- “This is because misconceptions are not addressed quickly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 March 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) | 64% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 16 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.
- Paddocks Primary School 0.4 mi Good
- Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy 0.9 mi Improved significantly
- St Louis Catholic Academy 1.0 mi Not judged
- Exning Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- All Saints Church of England Primary School, Newmarket 1.3 mi Good
- Moulton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 4.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Christopher's CEVCP School 5.7 mi Good Last distance published
- The Pines Primary School 6.1 mi Good Last distance published