Graded inspection · Jun 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Cambridgeshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 19 June 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 23 March 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry477 applications · 257 places offered · 333 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.9; Cambridgeshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2021 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2019 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2017 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2015 1.9; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2014 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- This school
- Cambridgeshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 257 | 477 | 1.9 | 333 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2025 | 261 | 505 | 1.9 | 300 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2024 | 273 | 503 | 1.8 | 301 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2023 | 262 | 463 | 1.8 | 317 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2022 | 275 | 486 | 1.8 | 311 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2021 | 264 | 441 | 1.7 | 297 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 | 268 | 460 | 1.7 | 301 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2019 | 267 | 450 | 1.7 | 275 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 266 | 472 | 1.8 | 328 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2017 | 268 | 475 | 1.8 | 298 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2016 | 263 | 471 | 1.8 | 308 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2015 | 248 | 466 | 1.9 | 271 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2014 | 257 | 458 | 1.8 | 255 | 0.99 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 274 | 52.5 | 54% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 277 | 51.2 | 55% | 73% | – |
| 2023/24 | 266 | 53.0 | 56% | 79% | +0.75 |
| 2022/23 | 276 | 55.0 | 58% | 78% | +0.83 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Soham Village CollegeThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20241.9applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 9.7 km · SuffolkGood20231.4applications per place 43.6Attainment 8
- 10.2 km · CambridgeshireImproved significantly20251.6applications per place 53.7Attainment 8
- 11.0 km · CambridgeshireRemains Good20231.7applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 12.8 km · SuffolkRemains Good20241.2applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 13.0 km · CambridgeshireRequires improvement20241.4applications per place 50.7Attainment 8
- 15.2 km · CambridgeshireSerious weaknesses 20251.1applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 15.5 km · CambridgeshireGood20231.4applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 17.7 km · CambridgeshireGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 61.4Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136610 · 873/5415
- Trust
- Anglian Learning
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,350 pupils · 1,436 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Soham Village College (URN 110909)
- Address
- Sand Street, Soham, Ely, CB7 5AA
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire · East Cambridgeshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources