URN 141236 · Suffolk
Alde Valley Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Leiston · IP16 4BG
About the school
- Pupils
- 645
- Capacity
- 560
- Free school meals
- 32.7%
- Ages
- 11–16
- Pupils taught
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Trust
- KINGFISHER SCHOOLS TRUST
- Region
- East of England
Source: DfE Get Information about Schools, register file of 08 Nov 2026; pupil numbers from the school census of 15 Jan 2026.
Latest Ofsted inspection
Graded inspection (pre-report-card) started 09 Jul 2024, published 16 Sept 2024.
Requires improvement
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes
- Early years provision
- 9
- Sixth form provision
- 9
Source: Ofsted management information, as at 30 Sept 2026. Outcomes are Ofsted's own words.
GCSE results (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 33.9
- Progress 8
- Not published
- Grade 5+ English & maths
- 28.5%
- Grade 4+ English & maths
- 49.2%
- Pupils at end of KS4
- 130
Source: DfE Key stage 4 performance — performance tables schools data, academic year 2025/26. "Not published" means the DfE suppressed or did not calculate the figure. Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25 and 2025/26 because there were no KS2 results for those pupils. Primary (KS2) results: DfE school performance page.