Rougham Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 5–11 · Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.430 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rougham Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk for ages 5–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 May 2024. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Rougham Church of England Primary 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.430 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, there were 41 first-choice applications for 29 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families and 12 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.430 miles away, the 15th longest of 48 Suffolk primary schools with a published last distance, nearer than in 2025.
- In 2024/25, 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Suffolk.
- The school has 23.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21 across 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
- Church Road, Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds, IP30 9JJ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Rougham Primary School thrive because of their teachers’ very high expectations.”
- “The school is a happy and welcoming place to learn.”
- “Staff nurture positive relationships with pupils.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils struggle to remember key learning from some areas of the curriculum.”
- “Where this is the case, pupils struggle to recall their earlier learning.”
- “This is because it is unclear when previous learning will be revisited or how pupils will connect what they have learned before to new concepts.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 June 2024 (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: 41 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Abbots Green Primary Academy 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Sebert Wood Community Primary School 2.7 mi Good
- Great Whelnetham Church of England Primary School 2.9 mi Good
- Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Hardwick Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good
- Thurston Church of England Primary Academy 3.5 mi Not judged
- Norton CEVC Primary School 3.5 mi Not judged
- Guildhall Feoffment Community Primary School 3.6 mi Not judged