Graded inspection · Jan 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry206 applications · 145 places offered · 123 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.1; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2021 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2020 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5
- 2019 0.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.2; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2017 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2016 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2015 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Cambridgeshire median
Dashed bars: as Ernulf Academy (URN 137187), St Neots Community College (URN 110878), the previous school.
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 | 145 | 206 | 1.4 | 123 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2025 | 151 | 216 | 1.4 | 138 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 162 | 236 | 1.5 | 138 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2023 | 225 | 245 | 1.1 | 138 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2022 | 153 | 222 | 1.5 | 141 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2021 | 143 | 184 | 1.3 | 113 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2020 | 160 | 185 | 1.2 | 109 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2019 | 178 | 144 | 0.8 | 81 | 0.46 |
| Sep 2018 * | 122 | 146 | 1.2 | 73 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2017 * | 81 | 117 | 1.4 | 65 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2016 * | 110 | 144 | 1.3 | 71 | 0.65 |
| Sep 2015 * | 92 | 123 | 1.3 | 59 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2014 * | 110 | 154 | 1.4 | 75 | 0.68 |
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.) | 131 | 43.4 | 39% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 134 | 40.3 | 39% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 144 | 36.2 | 29% | 53% | −0.44 |
| 2022/23 | 112 | 37.2 | 33% | 61% | −0.39 |
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
- Ernulf AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 43.4Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · CambridgeshireGood20241.2applications per place 48.2Attainment 8
- 8.8 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 12.8 km · CambridgeshireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 53.7Attainment 8
- 12.9 km · Bedford20252.3applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 13.3 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place
- 13.4 km · Cambridgeshire20262.1applications per place 49.0Attainment 8
- 14.3 km · Bedford20263.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 14.4 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 41.5Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 146369 · 873/4014
- Trust
- Astrea Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,274 pupils · 720 on roll
- Free school meals
- 31.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2018
- Replaced
- Ernulf Academy (URN 137187); St Neots Community College (URN 110878)
- Address
- Barford Road, St. Neots, PE19 2SH
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire · Huntingdonshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources