Academic Performance
In their report on the school in October 2009 Ofsted gave an overall rating of the school as Good, point two on a four point scale. The quality of care, support and guidance provide for students is described as outstanding.
Results for students at age 16 showed clear improvement between 2006 and 2009 outperforming both local and national indicators for students gaining 5 GCSE grades between A* and C, including English and Maths.
The progress made by students between key stage 4 and 5 is significantly better than other schools. In 2009 the school had the best contextual value added scores of any school in Suffolk.
Its unauthorised absence rate of around 7.4% is in line with local and national averages.
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