Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office
Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office is a miscellaneous in Ipswich for boys and girls aged 5 to 16.
St Andrew House, County Hall, Grimwade Street, Ipswich, IP4 1LJMr Sandy Ranson headteacherAll details
Ofsted
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Results
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Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Suffolk council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest secondary schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Helen's Primary School | Academy | 220 m | 439 | Good 2023 | 60 | Compare |
| Suffolk New College | Further education | 230 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Redstone Hall School | Independent | 270 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Ipswich | Church of England | 440 m | 413 | Good 2024 | 51 | Compare |
| University of Suffolk | Higher education institutions | 450 m | – | Not inspected | – | Compare |
| Woodbridge Road Academy | Free school | 850 m | 89 | No overall grade 2025 | – | Compare |
| Clifford Community Primary School & Nursery | Council | 890 m | 404 | No overall grade 2024 | 5 | Compare |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ipswich | Academy | 0.6 miles | 210 | Outstanding 2024 | 96 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office yet.
How many pupils does Learning Support, Southern Area Education Office have?
The number of pupils is not published.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- St Andrew House, County Hall, Grimwade Street, Ipswich, IP4 1LJ
- Headteacher
- Mr Sandy Ranson
- Type of school
- Miscellaneous (Miscellaneous, other types)
- Phase
- All-through school, ages 5-16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Ward
- Alexandra
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 133237 · LAESTAB 9359901
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.