Great Abington Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.879 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2020–2025 (miles)
Great Abington Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 February 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Great Abington Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | 0.879 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 2.847 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 4.815 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 2.543 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025 the last Reception child offered a place lived 0.879 miles away, the 7th shortest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In Reception, the 2025 last distance was the shortest of the 4 years and nearer the school than in 2022 or 2020, though distances swung sharply between some years.
- Of 33 applications for Reception 2026, 4 (12%) came from families living outside Cambridgeshire, and 0 offers went to them.
- 2024/25: 45% met expected reading, writing and maths standards, lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cambridgeshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- High Street, Abington, Cambridge, CB21 6AE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 133 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 February 2024
Strengths
- “They enjoy playing on ‘the mounds’, growing plants in the greenhouse and having friendly chats in the canteen.”
- “Pupils and their families are well known to staff.”
- “Pupils get the help and support they need.”
To improve
- “Some younger pupils get off to a slower start with how fluently they read, but catch up later.”
- “Younger pupils have not done as well as they might in the past.”
- “In most cases, pupils are now doing well, but in a few subjects they could still improve further.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 45% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 14 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 14 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Cambridgeshire.
- Babraham CofE (VC) Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Linton CofE Infant School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Linton Heights Junior School 2.5 mi Standards maintained
- The Icknield Primary School 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Bellbird Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- William Westley Church of England VC Primary School 3.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Meadow Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good
- Duxford Church of England Community Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good