Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades Farlingaye High School on 7 areas: 2 strong standard, 4 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The comprehensive personal development and wellbeing programme is central to life at Farlingaye."

Post 16 provision - Strong standard. "Students are proud to attend this popular sixth form."

Achievement - Expected standard. "The school's outcomes are broadly in line with national averages."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have devised an ambitious curriculum, which is logically sequenced and provides pupils with opportunities to recall and apply important knowledge."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school provides an inclusive environment for all pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and those responsible for governance have a deep knowledge and understanding of the school's local area and context."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Pupils' attendance over time has been below the national average."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that they develop strategies that help pupils to improve their attendance, particularly those at risk of persistent absence and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers check pupils' understanding consistently well, in order to ensure that any gaps and misconceptions are addressed".

In its own words: "At Farlingaye we aim to provide a school environment which is welcoming and supportive and to create a caring, working atmosphere which will enable students to reach their full potential intellectually, spiritually, ethically and physically. Farlingaye recognises the im-portance of the individual, values all its students equally and strives to ensure that they have the opportunity to experience success."

Coming up: an open evening on Thursday 19 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at Farlingaye High School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.4 in Suffolk and 47 across England.

42% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 40% in Suffolk and 47% in England.

That is up from 43.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.15: 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 33.6, against 47.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 13.7 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 27 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Social Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 282 families put Farlingaye High School as their first choice and 482 named it as one of their preferences, for 293 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Farlingaye High School are Kesgrave High School (3.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47); St Alban's Catholic High School (5.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.3); and Copleston High School (5.6 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.3).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Farlingaye High School.

Farlingaye High School is one of 11 schools run by East Anglian Schools Trust Ltd, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.6 in 2024/25.

Of the 305 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 25% to a further education college, 4% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Of the 192 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 36% went on to university or other higher education, 4% to apprenticeships and 41% into work. 21% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

16.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 3.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (82%) and Mixed (6%).

The nearest railway station is Woodbridge Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Farlingaye School (outside), 290 metres away.

In 2024/25, Farlingaye High School issued 195 suspensions, 10.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 3 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Farlingaye High School are St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Woodbridge (0.4 miles); Woodbridge Primary School (0.7 miles); Kyson Primary School (0.7 miles); and Melton Primary School (1.1 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.