Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther secondary schools in Cambridgeshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Expected standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Needs attention | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Expected standard | ||||
| Early years | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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Inspection history
- 18 November 2025Report card · 5 Expected standard, 1 Needs attention
- 15 March 2022Graded inspection: Inadequate · as Littleport & East Cambs Academy, URN 140881
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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 entry125 applications · 115 places offered · 71 named it first
- 2026 1.1; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.4; Cambridgeshire median median 1.7
- 2024 1.0; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.0; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2022 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2021 1.5; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2020 1.8; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2019 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2018 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2017 1.3; Cambridgeshire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- This school
- Cambridgeshire median
Dashed bars: as Littleport & East Cambs Academy (URN 140881), 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 | 115 | 125 | 1.1 | 71 | 0.62 |
| Sep 2025 | 81 | 116 | 1.4 | 74 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 114 | 112 | 1.0 | 77 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2023 * | 117 | 116 | 1.0 | 65 | 0.56 |
| Sep 2022 * | 112 | 165 | 1.5 | 109 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2021 * | 115 | 172 | 1.5 | 115 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 116 | 209 | 1.8 | 155 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2019 * | 118 | 156 | 1.3 | 117 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 * | 100 | 130 | 1.3 | 97 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2017 * | 80 | 106 | 1.3 | 78 | 0.98 |
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.) | 116 | 40.3 | 33% | 52% | – |
| 2024/25 | 106 | 38.8 | 34% | 53% | – |
| 2023/24 | 101 | 39.7 | 32% | 54% | −0.51 |
| 2022/23 | – |
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
- Vista Academy LittleportThis schoolThis schoolSerious weaknesses 20251.1applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · CambridgeshireImproved significantly20251.6applications per place 53.7Attainment 8
- 9.9 km · CambridgeshireRemains Good20231.7applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 15.2 km · CambridgeshireOutstanding20241.9applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 16.3 km · CambridgeshireRequires significant improvement 20261.2applications per place 36.7Attainment 8
- 16.6 km · CambridgeshireGood20231.4applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 16.9 km · NorfolkGood20221.3applications per place 42.5Attainment 8
- 19.1 km · NorfolkGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place 37.3Attainment 8
- 20.7 km · SuffolkRemains Good20241.2applications per place 39.5Attainment 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
- 150263 · 873/4016
- Capacity
- 600 pupils · 547 on roll
- Free school meals
- 32.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2023
- Replaced
- Littleport & East Cambs Academy (URN 140881)
- Address
- Camel Road, Ely, CB6 1EW
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire · East Cambridgeshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources