The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Copleston High School

URN 136827 · Secondary · Academy converter · Suffolk

Copleston Road, Ipswich, IP4 5HD

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 357 families named Copleston High School as their first preference, and the school made 315 offers.

That is 1.13 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 75% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 75% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.06 in 2021–2022 and 1.13 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 357 685 315 1.13
2024 357 737 319 1.12
2023 337 688 326 1.03
2022 324 738 326 0.99
2021 366 791 326 1.12
2020 333 694 326 1.02
2019 362 732 292 1.24
2018 330 680 289 1.14
2017 371 689 292 1.27
2016 340 712 289 1.18
2015 338 707 293 1.15
2014 275 606 293 0.94

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 7 December 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 46.90 - 70.0% 19.7%
2023/24 49.20 0.34
likely between 0.18 and 0.51		 73.0% 21.1%
2022/23 51.00 0.56
likely between 0.39 and 0.72		 76.9% 27.8%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 90.7 84.3 1.0 5.4 7.1%
2023/24 95.3 83.9 2.0 9.4 12.0%
2022/23 94.8 81.2 4.8 8.8 14.3%
2021/22 94.9 84.0 2.6 8.3 11.5%
2020/21 96.0 88.6 4.0 3.4 7.7%
2019/20 96.6 92.9 1.4 2.3 3.8%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Copleston High School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.