East Point Academy, Lowestoft

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades East Point Academy on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Improvements to teaching mean pupils remember more of what they have been taught than in the past."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils and their families understand the importance of regular attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a curriculum that is ambitious."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Staff know pupils well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "In January 2025, significant changes were made to leadership."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal development programme prepares pupils well for life in modern Britain."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff have the expertise to accurately check pupils' understanding of new learning and adapt their teaching to address gaps and misconceptions swiftly"; "Leaders should ensure that the writing curriculum, including support for pupils who need help with handwriting, is implemented consistently across the curriculum to support pupils to secure and use key writing knowledge"; "Leaders should continue to support pupils to understand how to meet their high expectations for behaviour".

In its own words: "Our values underpin everything we do at East Point Academy. We believe these values are essential attributes that our students should have opportunities to develop during their time with us and go on to demonstrate throughout their lives."

From the headteacher's welcome: "I am delighted to welcome you to East Point Academy. Here at East Point, we are one big family. Our staff and students are proud members of one of our four houses named after the Lowestoft Scores: Wilde, Mariners, Ravine and Crown."

In 2026, pupils at East Point Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 49.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.4 in Suffolk and 47 across England.

55% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 40% in Suffolk and 47% in England.

That is up from 39.5 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.39: pupils made below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 40.6, against 53.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 13.1 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Spanish and History.

For September 2026 entry, 116 families put East Point Academy as their first choice and 171 named it as one of their preferences, for 123 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to East Point Academy are Learning Support, Northern Area Education Office (1.3 miles); Pakefield High School (1.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 42.3); Ormiston Denes Academy (1.7 miles, Inadequate, Attainment 8 37.7); and Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics (2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46.6).

East Point Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 3 of them.

East Point Academy is one of 18 schools run by Inspiration Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 47.5 in 2024/25.

Of the 149 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 65% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

44.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Oulton Broad North Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

11 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Edgerton Road (opposite), 120 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 196 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Suffolk (32), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, East Point Academy issued 793 suspensions, 96 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 9 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to East Point Academy are Phoenix St Peter Academy (0.3 miles), Red Oak Primary School (0.4 miles), Westwood Primary School (0.6 miles) and Dell Primary School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.