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48 open schools in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Suffolk schools · grammar schools in Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds has 48 state schools: 36 primary, 5 secondary, part of Suffolk's wider catchment. 42 have a published Ofsted rating, and 33 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

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Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

Cockfield Church of England Primary School Good · ×0.64 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Woolpit Primary Academy Good · ×0.65 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Great Whelnetham Church of England Primary School Good · ×0.83 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Rattlesden Church of England Primary Academy Good · ×0.89 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Sybil Andrews Academy Good · ×0.93 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Great Heath Academy Good · ×0.94 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Good · ×0.96 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Tollgate Primary School Good · ×0.96 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Sebert Wood Community Primary School Good · ×0.97 1st prefs/place (2026/27) St Christopher's CEVCP School Good · ×0.97 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Suffolk

Primary schools: 'Every community and voluntary controlled school serves an area of streets or villages' — catchment maps published online. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Abbeygate Sixth Form College Bury St Edmunds · Outstanding Abbots Green Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good All Saints' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, Lawshall Bury St Edmunds · Outstanding Bardwell Church of England Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Barningham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Not judged Barrow Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Not judged Beck Row Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good Bury St Edmunds County High School Bury St Edmunds Cockfield Church of England Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Culford School Bury St. Edmunds Elmswell Community Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good Great Heath Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good Great Whelnetham Church of England Primary School Bury St. Edmunds · Good Guildhall Feoffment Community Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Not judged Hardwick Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Hartest Church of England Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Honington Church of England Primary School Bury St Edmunds Howard Community Academy Bury St Edmunds · Not judged Ickworth Park Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Ixworth Church of England Primary School Bury St. Edmunds · Good King Edward VI CEVC School Bury St Edmunds · Good Norton CEVC Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Not judged Priory School Bury St Edmunds · Outstanding Rattlesden Church of England Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good Risby Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Riverwalk School Bury St. Edmunds · Good Rougham Church of England Primary School Bury St. Edmunds · Good Sebert Wood Community Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Sexton's Manor Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Sir Peter Hall School Bury St. Edmunds · Not judged South Lee School Bury St Edmunds St Benedict's Catholic School Bury St Edmunds · Good St Christopher's CEVCP School Bury St Edmunds · Good St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good St Edmundsbury CofE Primary Academy Bury St. Edmunds · Requires improvement St Mary's Church of England Academy Bury St Edmunds · Requires improvement Stanton Primary School Bury St. Edmunds Sybil Andrews Academy Bury St. Edmunds · Good The Pines Primary School Bury St. Edmunds · Good Thurston Church of England Primary Academy Bury St. Edmunds · Not judged Thurston Community College Bury St Edmunds · Good Tollgate Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good Walsham-le-Willows Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Bury St Edmunds · Good West Row Academy Bury St. Edmunds West Suffolk College Bury St Edmunds · Outstanding Westgate Community Primary School and Nursery Bury St Edmunds · Good Woolpit Primary Academy Bury St Edmunds · Good

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 31 October 2027
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 15 January 2028
Sept 2028 Offer day 1 March 2028
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 17 April 2028
Sept 2027 Application deadline 31 October 2026
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 15 January 2027
Sept 2027 Offer day 1 March 2027
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 16 April 2027
Sept 2026 Application deadline 31 October 2025 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 15 January 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2 March 2026 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 16 April 2026 (passed)

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