Over Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
1.425 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2020–2025 (miles)
Over Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Over 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 | 1.425 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 2.581 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 1.63 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.305 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 1.562 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement (19 March 2024), while the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire have 6 Good and 2 with no current grade.
- In 2025 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.425 miles away, the 10th shortest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 17 first-choice applications for 17 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 21% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire.
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
- Long Furlong, Over, Cambridge, CB24 5PG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this welcoming school.”
- “There are warm relationships between pupils and adults.”
- “Pupils are enthusiastic about their learning and eagerly access a full range of curriculum subjects.”
To improve
- “Pupils are benefiting from newly established leadership at the school, but many recent changes are not fully in place.”
- “While pupils receive a good quality of education, there are some aspects of the curriculum which are not as well organised.”
- “Upcoming further changes mean there remains fragility to the leadership at this school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 June 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) | 21% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 17 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.
- Swavesey Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Willingham Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holywell CofE Primary School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pathfinder CofE Primary School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Hatton Park Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Fen Drayton Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Earith Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Helen's Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published