Claydon High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Ipswich, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.237 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Claydon High School is a secondary school in Ipswich, Suffolk for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Claydon 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 | 2.237 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 2.237 miles away, the 8th shortest of 18 Suffolk secondary schools with a published last distance.
- For Year 7, the last distance offered in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 had 179 first-choice applications for 148 offers; 146 offers went to first-choice families, and 33 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 42% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 45 (England 46).
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
- Church Lane, Claydon, Ipswich, IP6 0EG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 765 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 2 December 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this very happy school.”
- “They know that if they have any worries or problems, caring staff will provide them with the support they need to overcome them.”
- “Pupils usually get on well with each other and with staff.”
To improve
- “However, a few pupils, as leaders know, struggle to communicate their ideas in writing as well as they could, especially in key stage 3.”
- “When pupils find it harder to access the curriculum, a minority of pupils are not as engaged.”
- “When teaching is less effective, staff do not check the learning of pupils carefully enough.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 January 2026 (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) | 42% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45 | 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: 179 first-preference applications, 148 offers in total, 146 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.
- Ormiston Endeavour Academy 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westbourne Academy 2.2 mi Not judged
- Northgate High School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Chantry Academy 4.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Stoke High School - Ormiston Academy 4.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Alban's Catholic High School 4.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Copleston High School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ipswich Academy 6.1 mi Requires improvement