Alde Valley Academy
Academy sponsor led · 645 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.7
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Stradbroke High School
- Pupils on roll
- 353of 435 places
- Free school meals
- 21.6%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 55
- Ofsted
- School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next, 22 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Stradbroke Business and Enterprise College (URN 124814, until 1 March 2012).
What the data says
Stradbroke High School has no sixth form. Of the 75 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 1% moved to a sixth form college, 39% to a further education college and 8% started an apprenticeship.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 40% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 8% of leavers started one, roughly twice the England figure of 3%.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 44.3 against 46.1 across England and 42.8 in Suffolk, with 47% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Suffolk and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Stradbroke High School | Suffolk | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 75 | 7,591 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 84% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 41% | 39% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 1% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 39% | 42% | 37% |
| — other education | 3% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 8% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Stradbroke High School | Suffolk | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 44.3 | 42.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 47% | 40% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 73% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 56% | 27% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.02 | 3.70 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 20% | 25% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 38.1 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 45.9 | 46.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 2% | 10% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 54 | 98% | 89% | 19% | 20% | 69% |
| Mathematics | 54 | 98% | 88% | 19% | 22% | 78% |
| English Literature | 53 | 96% | 86% | 11% | 21% | 79% |
| Combined Science | 46 | 84% | 65% | 7% | 9% | 67% |
| History | 37 | 67% | 41% | 14% | 26% | 54% |
| Spanish | 29 | 53% | 19% | 3% | 27% | 38% |
| Art and Design | 22 | 40% | 7% | 5% | 24% | 82% |
| Geography | 21 | 38% | 41% | 29% | 25% | 62% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 20 | 36% | 8% | 0% | 21% | 40% |
| Design and Technology | 20 | 36% | 11% | 10% | 23% | 75% |
| Physical Education | 16 | 29% | 11% | 0% | 24% | 63% |
| Religious Studies | 13 | 24% | 31% | 15% | 32% | 69% |
| French | 10 | 18% | 18% | 0% | 29% | 50% |
| Drama | 7 | 13% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 43% |
| Statistics | 6 | 11% | 5% | 50% | 20% | 100% |
| Biology | 5 | 9% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Chemistry | 5 | 9% | 23% | — | 47% | — |
| Music | 5 | 9% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
| Physics | 5 | 9% | 23% | — | 46% | — |
| Business Studies | 1 | 2% | 18% | — | 20% | — |
Other secondary schools in Suffolk
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Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics
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Bungay High School
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Bury St Edmunds County High School
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.