Schools in Eye
Eye is a small market town in mid-Suffolk with 11 schools, including 9 primaries and two secondaries — Hartismere School in Eye and Stradbroke High School serving the surrounding villages. Suffolk County Council coordinates admissions and publishes catchment maps annually. Three schools are currently at or above capacity. All 11 schools operate as academies or academy trusts, making this a fully-academised local cluster.
Seven of the 11 schools carry a faith designation — the highest proportion among the towns in catchment.school's database — reflecting the rural Suffolk parish school tradition. Faith-based admissions criteria (predominantly Church of England) are applied before distance at several primaries. Families in surrounding villages such as Gislingham, Mellis and Stoke Ash should check whether their village primary's catchment overlaps with Hartismere School's defined area for Year 7 admissions.
School demand in Eye
Across the 11 schools in Eye with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 88%. 3 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
7 schools in Eye have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
11 of the schools in Eye are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Suffolk, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
4 of the schools in Eye have a current Ofsted rating, of which 4 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Eye: 2 oversubscribed (9)
Gislingham Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP23 8HX
St Edmund's Primary School
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Eye · IP21 5AD
Mellis Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP23 8DP
St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary School, Eye
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Eye · IP23 7BD
Fressingfield Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP21 5RU
Stradbroke Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP21 5HH
Occold Primary School
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Eye · IP23 7PL
Thorndon Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP23 7JR
Wilby Church of England Primary School
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Eye · IP21 5LR
Secondary Schools in Eye (2)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Eye are set by Suffolk and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.