Ormiston Endeavour Academy, Ipswich

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades Ormiston Endeavour 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. "Across the curriculum, pupils typically progress well from their various starting points."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders maintain an accurate understanding of attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the strengths and areas for development within curriculum and teaching."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school has appropriate processes in place to identify pupils' needs promptly."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have a secure understanding of the school's strengths and priorities."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have embedded a well-designed personal development programme that prepares pupils effectively for life after school."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Trustees must maintain a robust oversight of safeguarding to ensure they have an accurate understanding of safeguarding arrangements over time"; "Leaders should continue to support teachers' development so that highly effective teaching is consistent across the curriculum"; "Leaders should continue to tackle barriers to pupils' attendance to secure high attendance for all groups of pupils".

In its own words: "“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” Our vision is to equip all individuals to be determined, self- motivated, effective and engaged learners, overcoming any barriers to their aspirations. “Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again."

From the headteacher's welcome: "Ormiston Endeavour Academy is an 11-16 secondary Academy situated in north-east Ipswich. As a relatively small Academy with 860 students, we take pride in the high levels of support, care and challenge we offer all of our students."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include debating and Duke of Edinburgh.

In 2026, pupils at Ormiston Endeavour Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 40.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.4 in Suffolk and 47 across England.

30% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 40% in Suffolk and 47% in England.

That is down from 42.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.09: pupils made about 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 33.8, against 42.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.1 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 20 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Geography, Biology and Physics.

For September 2026 entry, 161 families put Ormiston Endeavour Academy as their first choice and 228 named it as one of their preferences, for 174 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 Ormiston Endeavour Academy are Westbourne Academy (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.2); Claydon High School (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.2); Northgate High School (2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 49.5); and Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office (2.2 miles).

Ormiston Endeavour Academy's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

Ormiston Endeavour Academy is one of 44 schools run by Ormiston Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41 in 2024/25.

Of the 97 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 79% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 41% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

In 2026, 144 pupils (18.2%) received SEN support and 20 (2.5%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

The nearest railway station is Entrance1, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Heathercroft Road (opposite), 80 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Ormiston Endeavour Academy stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 110 crimes within a mile of the school, most often shoplifting, violence and sexual offences and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Suffolk (32), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Ormiston Endeavour Academy issued 240 suspensions, 32.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 5 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Ormiston Endeavour Academy are Castle Hill Junior School (0.3 miles), Castle Hill Infant School (0.3 miles), St Pancras Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles) and The Beeches Community Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.