Townley Primary School
Community school · Wisbech · PE14 9NA
Ages 2–11 · 102 pupils · Cambridgeshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
31%
Overall absence
4.8%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2022-03-29
- 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)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 99.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 103.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 3.6%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 79
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
102 pupils · 86 places
- Pupils on roll
- 102
- Boys / girls
- 50 / 52
- School capacity
- 86
- Capacity fill
- 102 / 86 (119%)
- Free school meals
- 35.3%
- FSM pupils
- 36
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 2–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Federation
- Fenland Schools Federation
- Headteacher
- Mrs Maria-Anne Higgins
Location
- Address
- Crown Road, Christchurch
- Postcode
- PE14 9NA
- Town
- Wisbech
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- District
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from 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
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Resourced places
- 6 on roll / 10 capacity
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 2–11, in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, 102 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 35.3%. SEN provision includes: SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Maria-Anne Higgins
- Telephone
- 01354638229