Overall Oxbridge
#1,085
11 ranked schools · -171 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
89
Offers
14
Offer rate15.7%
-6.7 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Where the River Orwell curves through Suffolk into its tidal estuary, Ipswich has served as the county town since the Saxon period, when the settlement was first recorded as Gippeswic and is thought to be one of England's oldest continuously inhabited towns. Around 151,000 people live here today, making it the largest town in Suffolk and the principal population centre of East Anglia beyond Peterborough and Norwich. The Ipswich Waterfront, a regenerated Victorian dock on a meander of the Orwell, anchors restaurants, apartments, and a working marina at the town's southern edge.
Chantry, to the southwest, draws families competing for primary places, while Holbrook has long been one of the most school-competitive pockets in the area. Castle Hill and Martlesham Heath form the main residential belt to the northeast, with Woolverstone stretching south along the river. Greater Anglia trains reach Norwich in under an hour.
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All-through
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Post-16
colleges
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Special
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Area Performance
Across 90 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.18/10, -0.23 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Ipswich schools
Ipswich vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Ipswich schools
top 61% of 14,978
top 61% of 14,978
top 53% of 3,862
top 53% of 3,862
top 41% of 2,555
top 41% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
11 ranked schools · -171 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
89
Offers
14
Oxford
5 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
28
Offers
0
Cambridge
11 ranked schools · -277 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
61
Offers
14
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Ipswich
2026
Ipswich
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Ipswich
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