Histon and Impington Park Primary School
Ofsted: OutstandingAcademy converter · Primary
Cambridge · CB24 9AQ · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–11
- Absence4.8%
- FSM13.2%
- Demand0.98
2.0 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 110604
Cottenham Primary School
Community school · Cambridge · CB24 8TA
Ages 5–11 · 471 pupils · Cambridgeshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
72%
Overall absence
4.8%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-05-16
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)72%
Higher standard (RWM)14%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence4.8%
Persistent absence (10%+)11.4%
Unauthorised0.9%
- Authorised absence
- 3.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 431
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
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
58
Places offered
58
1st-preference offers
58
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 89
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 58
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- 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 fill79%
471 pupils · 600 places
- Pupils on roll
- 471
- Boys / girls
- 249 / 222
- School capacity
- 600
- Capacity fill
- 471 / 600 (79%)
- Free school meals
- 17.4%
- FSM pupils
- 82
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Headteacher
- Mr James Kilsby
Location
- Address
- Lambs Lane, Cottenham
- Postcode
- CB24 8TA
- Town
- Cambridge
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- District
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire
- Urban/rural
- Larger 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 community school (primary), Ages 5–11, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 471 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 17.4%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Histon and Impington Brook Primary School
Ofsted: Not judgedAcademy converter · Primary
Cambridge · CB24 9JA · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–11
- KS290%
- Absence4.6%
- FSM9.6%
- Demand1.00
2.4 miles away
Pathfinder CofE Primary School
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Cambridge · CB24 3DS · Cambridgeshire
Ages 2–11
- KS268%
- Absence5.7%
- FSM21.3%
- Demand0.95
2.8 miles away
Oakington CofE Primary School
Ofsted: GoodAcademy sponsor led · Primary
Cambridge · CB24 3AL · Cambridgeshire
Ages 5–11
- KS250%
- Absence5.2%
- FSM28.6%
- Demand1.00
2.8 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr James Kilsby
- Telephone
- 01954250227