Bungay High School, Bungay: Ofsted, results & admissions

At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedNo overall grade

Attendance (2024/25)90.5%

Attainment (2024/25)Attainment 8: 41.7

Roll vs capacityAround published capacity

Pupils922

Ofsted inspection

Latest Ofsted report card

Inspected 3 Mar 2026

Report card grades

Safeguarding: Met
Inclusion: Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
Achievement: Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard
Post-16 provision: Expected standard
Leadership and governance: Expected standard

Ofsted grades each area on its own, from urgent improvement up to exceptional. Expected standard means the school is doing everything it should. These grades cannot be compared with the old overall grades.

Report published 17 May 2026.

Inspection history

Latest ungradedSchool remains Good10 Nov 2021
Previous gradedRequires improvement24 Sept 2014

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in NR35. Where we have them, council (Suffolk) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll: 922
Free school meals: 26.1%
SEN: 17%
EAL: 4.1%
Attendance: 90.5% Autumn and spring 2024/25

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the NR35 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. Headline GCSE measures are 2024/25. Progress 8 is from 2023/24, the latest year published for this school. There is no Progress 8 for 2024/25 or 2025/26, because those pupils did not sit Key Stage 2 tests during the pandemic. England is the state-funded average from the same tables. Progress 8 of 0 is typical.

Persistent absence2024/25

24.4%

2.5% above England (21.9%)

Progress 82023/24

+0.08

0.08 above England (0.00)

Attainment 82024/25

41.7

4.4 below England (46.1)

Grade 5+ English & maths2024/25

35.8%

9.6% below England (45.4%)

Grade 4+ English & maths2024/25

59.4%

5.4% below England (64.8%)

Entered for EBacc2024/25

21.4%

19.1% below England (40.5%)

EBacc average point score2024/25

3.67

0.4 below England (4.09)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring 2024/25 from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN). The headline above uses the same period.

96.4%
2020/21
90.5%
2021/22
91.1%
2022/23
91.7%
2023/24
90.5%
2024/25

Admissions

Applications and offers (September 2026 entry)

For September 2026 entry, 152 families put this school first. All of them were offered a place here.

Named as first preference: 152
First-preference offers: 152
First preferences offered a place: 100%
Total offers: 157
Named on any preference: 236

This is historic demand from one admissions round. It is not a guarantee of a place, and it does not show a catchment area. Admission rules and priorities differ by school.

SourceDfE applications and offers, September 2026 entryPublished 18th of June 2026.

How full the building is

Roll versus published capacity: Around published capacity
Published capacity (GIAS): 1200
Pupils on roll: 922

Pupils on roll compared with the capacity published in GIAS. This is about building size, not applications or offers, and it is not a guarantee of a place.

Applications and offers come from DfE. Last distance offered and catchment areas are not published nationally. Your council admissions booklet has those details.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Suffolk page.

SEN support

SEN %: 17%
On-site provision: Resourced provision · HI

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Schools near Bungay High School

Distances are in a straight line from this school. They are not catchment areas.

Sir John Leman High School4.9 miles · Secondary · Ofsted: No overall grade

Other nearby schools

Bungay Primary School0.6 miles · Primary · Ofsted: No overall grade
Castle EAST School0.6 miles · Special · Ofsted: Outstanding
St Edmund's RC Primary School and Nursery0.7 miles · Primary · Ofsted: Good
Earsham Church of England Primary Academy1.0 miles · Primary
Ditchingham Church of England Primary Academy1.8 miles · Primary · Ofsted: Good
Ellingham VC Primary School2.8 miles · Primary · Ofsted: No overall grade
Turnstone House School3.6 miles · Special · Ofsted: Outstanding
Ringsfield Church of England Primary School4.2 miles · Primary · Ofsted: No overall grade
Ilketshall St Lawrence School4.3 miles · Primary · Ofsted: No overall grade

All schools in NR35 · Schools in Suffolk

Sources and freshness

School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
Pipeline last checked: Oct 2026.
Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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