Graded inspection · Mar 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry340 applications · 250 places offered · 194 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.6; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2021 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2019 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2017 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.7; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2015 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2014 1.7; 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 | 250 | 340 | 1.4 | 194 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2025 | 280 | 388 | 1.4 | 213 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2024 | 290 | 450 | 1.6 | 299 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2023 | 295 | 454 | 1.5 | 297 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2022 | 293 | 437 | 1.5 | 297 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2021 | 280 | 416 | 1.5 | 259 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2020 | 280 | 352 | 1.3 | 259 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2019 | 268 | 403 | 1.5 | 275 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 211 | 366 | 1.7 | 247 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2017 | 230 | 383 | 1.7 | 262 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2016 | 218 | 366 | 1.7 | 222 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2015 | 205 | 372 | 1.8 | 249 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2014 | 228 | 384 | 1.7 | 272 | 1.19 |
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.) | 290 | 50.7 | 53% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 293 | 51.1 | 58% | 77% | – |
| 2023/24 | 274 | 50.8 | 52% | 73% | +0.12 |
| 2022/23 | 236 | 47.6 | 49% | 70% | +0.01 |
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
- Bottisham Village CollegeThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20241.4applications per place 50.7Attainment 8
- 7.4 km · CambridgeshireOutstanding20242.7applications per place 62.9Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · CambridgeshireRemains Good20241.8applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · CambridgeshireStandards maintained20242.0applications per place 58.7Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · CambridgeshireStandards maintained20251.2applications per place 48.6Attainment 8
- 8.9 km · CambridgeshireRemains Outstanding20234.8applications per place 65.9Attainment 8
- 9.2 km · CambridgeshireGraded · no overall grade20253.6applications per place 65.4Attainment 8
- 9.7 km · CambridgeshireRemains Good202362.1Attainment 8
- 9.8 km · CambridgeshireGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place 61.4Attainment 8
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136677 · 873/4002
- Trust
- Anglian Learning
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,500 pupils · 1,396 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Bottisham Village College (URN 110860)
- Address
- Lode Road, Bottisham, Cambridge, CB25 9DL
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire · East Cambridgeshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources