Bury St Edmunds County High School

Beetons Way, West Suffolk, Suffolk, IP32 6RF

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About this school

Bury St Edmunds County High School is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in West Suffolk, Suffolk. The school has 739 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Good (graded inspection, 15 March 2022). Last inspected 19 May 2026. The Headteacher is Sally Kennedy. The school is administered by Suffolk local authority. It belongs to UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP. It opened in 1 August 2011.

School details

Headteacher

Sally Kennedy

Trust

UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP

Local authority

Suffolk

Gender

Mixed

URN

136990

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Bury St Edmunds County High School are handled by the school or the local authority (Suffolk). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

Source: Department for Education school performance data. Check this school on GOV.UK →

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