The School Record

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

Thurston Church of England Primary Academy

URN 142562 · Primary · Academy converter · Suffolk

Pond Field Road, Bury St. Edmunds, IP31 3FT

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, 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, 51 families named Thurston Church of England Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 52 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 51% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 51% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.98 in 2021–2022 and 0.99 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 10 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 51 91 52 0.98
2024 45 75 45 1.00
2023 40 90 40 1.00
2022 48 77 48 1.00
2021 24 52 25 0.96
2020 17 45 19 0.89
2019 33 56 30 1.10
2018 27 55 30 0.90
2017 23 49 23 1.00
2016 35 73 30 1.17

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 12 November 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 59.0% 5.0% 105.0 104.0
2023/24 60.0% 8.0% 104.0 104.0
2022/23 61.0% 7.0% 104.0 105.0

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 16.2 13.6 0.0 2.6 16.0%
2023/24 15.2 14.2 0.0 1.0 6.6%
2022/23 15.0 13.6 0.8 0.6 9.3%
2021/22 12.5 12.5 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 7.9 5.9 0.0 2.0 25.3%
2019/20 8.5 7.9 0.0 0.6 7.1%

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 primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Thurston Church of England Primary Academy.

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.