Alde Valley Academy
Academy sponsor led · 645 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.7
Academy special sponsor led
The Bridge School
- Pupils on roll
- 257of 273 places
- Free school meals
- 44.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 6
- Ofsted
- Good, 27 June 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: The Bridge School (URN 124909, until 31 May 2019).
What the data says
Of the 8 pupils who finished Year 11 at The Bridge School in 2023, 13% stayed on in The Bridge School’s own sixth form (Suffolk average 39%), 38% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
13% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
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 | The Bridge School | Suffolk | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 8 | 7,591 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 75% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 75% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 13% | 39% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 38% | 42% | 37% |
| — other education | 25% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 13% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 13% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.
Other secondary schools in Suffolk
Beccles High School
Free schools · 182 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 27.6
Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics
Academy sponsor led · 1,263 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Breckland School
Free schools · 615 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.4
Bungay High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 922 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.7
Bury St Edmunds County High School
Academy converter · 657 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.8
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.