Elsworth CofE VA Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodVoluntary aided school · Primary
CB23 4JD · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–11
- KS253%
- Absence4.3%
- FSM6.2%
- Demand1.00
1.9 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 110617
Pendragon Community Primary School
Community school · Cambridge · CB23 3XQ
Ages 4–11 · 290 pupils · Cambridgeshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
54%
Overall absence
5.1%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-07-05
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- 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)54%
Higher standard (RWM)6%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.1%
Persistent absence (10%+)9.9%
Unauthorised0.5%
- Authorised absence
- 4.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 312
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
28
Places offered
28
1st-preference offers
28
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 34
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 28
- 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 fill69%
290 pupils · 420 places
- Pupils on roll
- 290
- Boys / girls
- 144 / 146
- School capacity
- 420
- Capacity fill
- 290 / 420 (69%)
- Free school meals
- 15.6%
- FSM pupils
- 42
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
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
- Mrs Emily Samuels
Location
- Address
- Varrier-Jones Drive, Papworth Everard
- Postcode
- CB23 3XQ
- Town
- Cambridge
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- District
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid 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 4–11, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 290 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 15.6%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
The Newton Community Primary School
Ofsted: GoodCommunity school · Primary
St Neots · PE19 6TL · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–11
- KS250%
- Absence6.6%
- FSM25.0%
- Demand0.88
2.4 miles away
Other independent special school
Cambridge · CB23 3RD · Cambridgeshire
Ages 5–16
0.4 miles away
Cambourne Village College
Ofsted: Not judgedFree schools · Secondary
Cambridge · CB23 6FR · Cambridgeshire
Ages 11–18
- Att849.5
- P80.3
- EM5+53%
- Absence8.2%
2.9 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Emily Samuels
- Telephone
- 01480830267