Community school · Primary
St Neots · PE19 1DZ · Cambridgeshire
Ages 4–7
Status: Open
0.0 miles away
OpenOfsted: Not judgedURN 142932
Riverside Meadows Academy
Academy special sponsor led · St. Neots · PE19 1DZ
Ages 11–18 · 120 pupils · Cambridgeshire
Ofsted
Not judged
Attainment 8
4.2
Overall absence
30.6%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-06-24
Category of concern
SWK
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8-2.19
−20+2
Attainment 84.2
English & maths grade 5+0%
English & maths grade 4+0%
EBacc entry0%
EBacc APS: 0.3
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence30.6%
Persistent absence (10%+)63.5%
Unauthorised12.1%
- Authorised absence
- 18.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 25.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 115
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill100%
120 pupils · 120 places
- Pupils on roll
- 120
- Boys / girls
- 81 / 39
- School capacity
- 120
- Capacity fill
- 120 / 120 (100%)
- Free school meals
- 74.2%
- FSM pupils
- 89
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy special sponsor led
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
3 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: HORIZONS EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- HORIZONS EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Horizons Education Trust
- Headteacher
- Ms Kate Lovegrove
Location
- Address
- Almond Road
- Postcode
- PE19 1DZ
- Town
- St. Neots
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- District
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Resourced places
- 115 on roll / 115 capacity
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy special sponsor led, Ages 11–18, in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire, 120 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, special school. Free school meals: 74.2%. SEN provision includes: SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
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Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Ms Kate Lovegrove
- Telephone
- 01223471719