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St Mark's Catholic Primary School

Primary school · Academy converter · ages 5 to 11 · Mixed

Stone Lodge Lane West, Ipswich, IP2 9HN

  • Pupils202
  • Ages5 to 11
  • Latest Ofsted8 Feb 2023
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

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Graded inspection · 8 Feb 2023

This inspection was of a predecessor school (St Mark's Catholic Primary School, Ipswich), before it reopened under its current reference number. Ofsted says grades of a predecessor school can’t, in law, transfer to the new one.

Overall effectiveness: Good

  • Quality of educationGood
  • Behaviour and attitudesGood
  • Personal developmentGood
  • Leadership and managementGood
  • Early years provisionGood
  • Safeguarding is effectiveYes

Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).

S5 Inspection · report published 22 Mar 2023

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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
202 (capacity 210)
93 girls, 109 boys
Eligible for free school meals
17.3% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Academy converter (Academies)
Phase
Primary
Trust
OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM CATHOLIC MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Diocese
Diocese of East Anglia
Nursery
No Nursery Classes
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Opened
1 November 2025
Local authority
Suffolk
Parliamentary constituency
Ipswich
URN
151852 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

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Admissions

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