Graded inspection · Sep 2025 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 30 September 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 29 February 2024Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry229 applications · 206 places offered · 190 named it first
- 2026 1.1; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2021 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2019 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2017 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2015 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2014 1.2; 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 | 206 | 229 | 1.1 | 190 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 193 | 228 | 1.2 | 180 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 220 | 252 | 1.2 | 193 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2023 | 197 | 260 | 1.3 | 216 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2022 | 174 | 244 | 1.4 | 185 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2021 | 205 | 252 | 1.2 | 207 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2020 | 179 | 264 | 1.5 | 203 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2019 | 178 | 223 | 1.3 | 184 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 179 | 224 | 1.3 | 180 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2017 | 176 | 215 | 1.2 | 173 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 | 176 | 212 | 1.2 | 177 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2015 | 168 | 210 | 1.3 | 161 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2014 | 164 | 199 | 1.2 | 164 | 1.00 |
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.) | 185 | 38.6 | 32% | 52% | – |
| 2024/25 | 200 | 40.6 | 34% | 57% | – |
| 2023/24 | 176 | 38.5 | 31% | 49% | −0.66 |
| 2022/23 | 175 | 44.3 | 41% | 65% | −0.31 |
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
- Sir Harry Smith Community CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.1applications per place 38.6Attainment 8
- 7.5 km · PeterboroughGood20231.5applications per place 46.9Attainment 8
- 7.5 km · PeterboroughRemains Good20232.6applications per place
- 7.5 km · PeterboroughGood20241.4applications per place 42.2Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · PeterboroughGood20223.2applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 8.6 km · PeterboroughOutstanding20245.5applications per place 60.9Attainment 8
- 8.6 km · PeterboroughGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 40.4Attainment 8
- 9.4 km · PeterboroughGraded · no overall grade20253.1applications per place
- 9.8 km · Peterborough20262.7applications per place 47.5Attainment 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
- 138053 · 873/4051
- Trust
- Aspire Learning Trust (WHITTLESEY)
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,210 pupils · 1,084 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- Sir Harry Smith Community College (URN 110870)
- Address
- Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1XB
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire · Fenland
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources