Langer Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: Langer Road, Felixstowe, IP11 2HL – View on map
- Phone: 01394283065
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Joanne Morgan-Soane
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 6 families put it first for 6 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 66
- % eligible for free school meals: 45.8%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (more mixed than the East Suffolk average)
- English as an additional language: 15% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 48.5% a year (East Suffolk 17.2%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 77% moved to another school, 23% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Suffolk: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 20 (0.4 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 1
- Suspensions for bullying: 14 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Suffolk (the council area this school is in), not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 7.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 23.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- SEN unit for Severe learning difficulties 20 places · 20 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 16.7%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 35% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 26 percentage points below the East Suffolk average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 54% against an expected 50%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 60% · Writing 55% · Maths 55% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 45%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 99
- Based on: 20 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 68th of 74 junior and primary schools in the area
- #66St Benet's RC Primary School and Nursery38%
- #67Bungay Primary School36%
- #68Langer Primary Academy35%
- =69Barnby and North Cove Community Primary School33%
- =69Otley Primary School33%
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31st of 60 primary schools in East Suffolk for Ofsted rating
- #29Kessingland Church of England Primary AcademyGood
- #30Kingsfleet Primary SchoolGood
- #31Langer Primary AcademyGood
- #32Leiston Primary SchoolGood
- #33Martlesham Primary AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £11,744 (2024-25)
4th of 78 primary schools in East Suffolk for spending per pupil
- #2Middleton Community Primary School£17,053
- #3Charsfield Church of England Primary School£11,892
- #4Langer Primary Academy£11,744
- #5Orford Church of England Primary School and Nursery£11,255
- #6Felix Primary School£10,329
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