Beccles High School
Free schools · 182 pupils
77% stayed in education · Attainment 8 27.6
Academy sponsor led
Alde Valley Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 645of 560 places
- Free school meals
- 32.7%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 135
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement, 9 July 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Alde Valley School (URN 124819, until 25 November 2014).
What the data says
Alde Valley Academy has no sixth form. Of the 84 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 54% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.
GCSE results in 2025 were well below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 33.7 against 46.1 across England and 42.8 in Suffolk, with 24% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Fine Art is unusually popular at GCSE: 31% of the year group took it, against 9% of pupils across England.
As an 11–16 school, Alde Valley Academy is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Suffolk and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Alde Valley Academy | Suffolk | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 84 | 7,591 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 93% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 80% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 25% | 39% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 5% | 13% |
| — further education college | 54% | 42% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 10% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 5% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Alde Valley Academy | Suffolk | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 33.7 | 42.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 24% | 40% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 42% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 16% | 27% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.01 | 3.70 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 27% | 25% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 23.1 | 30.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 37.6 | 46.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 4% | 10% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 135 | 100% | 89% | 3% | 20% | 44% |
| Mathematics | 134 | 99% | 88% | 9% | 22% | 51% |
| English Literature | 128 | 95% | 86% | 4% | 21% | 45% |
| Combined Science | 125 | 93% | 65% | 2% | 9% | 40% |
| Geography | 76 | 56% | 41% | 7% | 25% | 36% |
| History | 60 | 44% | 41% | 7% | 26% | 32% |
| Fine Art | 42 | 31% | 9% | 5% | 28% | 21% |
| Design and Technology | 39 | 29% | 11% | 0% | 23% | 15% |
| Graphic Communication | 37 | 27% | 1% | 5% | 23% | 32% |
| Physical Education | 32 | 24% | 11% | 19% | 24% | 66% |
| French | 29 | 21% | 18% | 17% | 29% | 76% |
| Business Studies | 27 | 20% | 18% | 7% | 20% | 52% |
| Music | 26 | 19% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 8% |
| Drama | 16 | 12% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 31% |
| Computer Science | 13 | 10% | 13% | 15% | 30% | 69% |
| 3D Design | 12 | 9% | 2% | 0% | 16% | 0% |
| Biology | 9 | 7% | 23% | 44% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 9 | 7% | 23% | 22% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 9 | 7% | 23% | 33% | 46% | 100% |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 39 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 7 | — | — |
Where Alde Valley Academy is
Other secondary schools in Suffolk are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Suffolk’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Suffolk
Benjamin Britten Academy of Music and Mathematics
Academy sponsor led · 1,263 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Breckland School
Free schools · 615 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.4
Bungay High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 922 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.7
Bury St Edmunds County High School
Academy converter · 657 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 49.8
Castle Manor Academy
Academy converter · 760 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.3
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.