The Newton Community Primary School
Ofsted: GoodCommunity school · Primary
St Neots · PE19 6TL · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–11
- KS250%
- Absence6.6%
- FSM25.0%
- Demand0.88
2.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: Standards maintainedURN 110814
Barnabas Oley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school · Sandy · SG19 3AE
Ages 5–11 · 144 pupils · Cambridgeshire
Ofsted
Standards maintained
KS2 expected (RWM)
55%
Overall absence
4.0%
Admissions demand
1.10 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Standards maintained
Inspection date
2025-02-13
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)55%
Higher standard (RWM)14%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 109.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence4.0%
Persistent absence (10%+)7.3%
Unauthorised0.6%
- Authorised absence
- 3.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 124
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.10 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
23
Places offered
21
1st-preference offers
21
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 37
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 21
- Applications from outside LA
- 3
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill96%
144 pupils · 150 places
- Pupils on roll
- 144
- Boys / girls
- 72 / 72
- School capacity
- 150
- Capacity fill
- 144 / 150 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 6.9%
- FSM pupils
- 10
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Ely
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Michelle Downes
Location
- Address
- Little Lane, Great Gransden
- Postcode
- SG19 3AE
- Town
- Sandy
- County
- Bedfordshire
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- District
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 5–11, in Sandy, Cambridgeshire, 144 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 6.9%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Ely.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Gamlingay Village Primary
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Sandy · SG19 3HD · Cambridgeshire
Ages 3–11
- KS253%
- Absence6.5%
- FSM13.4%
- Demand0.97
3.0 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Michelle Downes
- Telephone
- 01767677294