Debenham High School A GSG School
- Debenham High School
Gracechurch Street
Debenham
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 6BL - Head: Mr Simon Martin
- T 01728 860213
- F 01728 860998
- E office@debenhamhigh.co.uk
- W www.debenhamhigh.co.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Suffolk
- Pupils: 676
- Religion: Church of England
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 2nd March 2023
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Pupils’ work, some of it highly detailed and informative, is displayed throughout the building and, ‘it gives us something to read while we are waiting to be let into the classroom’. The claim of ‘sport for all’ really does hold good as girls play cricket and football, ’rugby too, if they want,’ as well as rounders and netball. Sport appears to be encouraged but not forced on pupils: ’You don’t have to be mad on it,’ said one parent (approvingly). With such a good grounding at GCSE, pupils go on to do very well at A levels in sixth forms elsewhere...
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2020, Simon Martin.
Entrance
Those from within the catchment (radius of about 15 miles from the school, but check) with looked after children having the highest priority. If outside the area, siblings of those currently attending the school followed by those with a pastoral or other need.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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