Newmarket Academy, Newmarket

In its own words: "…who can enjoy and understand learning, are equipped with the skills to adapt and cope with an ever changing and unpredictable world and adopt a positive attitude towards lifelong learning. They have imagination and creativity and are emotionally intelligent and independent."

In 2026, pupils at Newmarket Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.4 in Suffolk and 47 across England.

38% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 40% in Suffolk and 47% in England.

That is down from 45.9 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.5: pupils made well 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 34, against 46.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 12.9 points.

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

For September 2026 entry, 119 families put Newmarket Academy as their first choice and 192 named it as one of their preferences, for 141 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

Newmarket Academy is one of 40 schools run by Unity Schools Partnership, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 44.3 in 2024/25.

Of the 160 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 84% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 55% to a further education college, 8% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

Newmarket Academy has a SEN unit for autism: 22 places, 21 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Entrance2, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Newmarket Academy (adjacent), 110 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 111 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Suffolk (32), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Newmarket Academy issued 172 suspensions, 21.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Newmarket Academy are Paddocks Primary School (0.3 miles), Houldsworth Valley Primary Academy (0.4 miles), St Louis Catholic Academy (0.5 miles) and Laureate Community Academy (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.