Joshua Mangas

Chalk Hill

  • Special
  • Academy special sponsor led
  • Ages 8 to 16

URN 152298 · Suffolk · EASTERN EDUCATION GROUP TRUST

In Suffolk

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

18 October 2023

Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement

Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

First full inspection as an academy

Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Key stage 2 results

Against Suffolk and England, primary schools.

Reading, writing and maths: expected standard

2024/25

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.

Reading, writing and maths: higher standard

2024/25

Not publishedNot applicable to this school

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.

Teachers

Against Suffolk and England, special schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

3.8

Suffolk
6.8
England
7.3

3.5 lower than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Suffolk
4.9 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
20
Capacity
30
Type
Academy special sponsor led
Phase
Special
Age range
8 to 16
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Trust
EASTERN EDUCATION GROUP TRUST
Opened
1 September 2025
Setting
Urban: Further from a major town or city
Constituency
South Suffolk
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 3 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Cats Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2SF

Website: easterneducationgroup.ac.uk/send/chalk-hill

Telephone: 01787373583

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Sources and corrections

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