Grace Cook Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 2–11 · Stowmarket, Suffolk
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.335 miles
Published by Suffolk County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grace Cook Primary School is a primary school in Stowmarket, Suffolk for ages 2–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 February 2025. Suffolk has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Grace Cook 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 | 0.335 mi |
| Reception 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 Reception place in 2026 lived 0.335 miles away, the 5th shortest of 48 Suffolk primary schools with a published last distance, and further than in 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 37 first-choice applications for 29 offers; all 29 went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 9.9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 21.5% 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
- Fuller Way, Stowmarket, IP14 1GG
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Suffolk
- Pupils on roll
- 203 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 4 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils attending the Grace Cook Primary School enjoy a safe and caring community.”
- “They work with staff who ensure that the school aims of ‘dream, believe, achieve’ are part of everyday school life.”
- “Pupils can share any worries with staff, who they know will help them.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, this is less clear.”
- “This means that teachers do not always deliver the curriculum as planned.”
- “Consequently, where this is the case, pupils could potentially develop gaps in their knowledge and this, in turn, may impact on their success when studying more complex learning in the future.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 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.
- Wood Ley Community Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Chilton Community Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained
- Abbot's Hall Community Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- Cedars Park Community Primary School 1.6 mi Good
- Crawford's Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Combs Ford Primary School 1.8 mi Not judged
- Trinity Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 2.0 mi Standards maintained
- Great Finborough Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.0 mi Good