Willingham Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
7.459 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Willingham Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 June 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Willingham 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 | 7.459 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025 the last child offered a place lived 7.459 miles away, the 2nd longest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 51% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire.
- Reception 2026 entry saw 48 first-choice applications for 48 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 27.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire is 17.4%.
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
- Thodays Close, Willingham, Cambridge, CB24 5LE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 364 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 June 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high expectations for every pupil’s academic success.”
- “They place equally high importance on pupils’ wider development.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school and of their achievements.”
To improve
- “In a minority of subjects, plans do not clearly indicate the link between what is taught in early years and what children go on to learn in other years.”
- “However, this is not consistent.”
- “This means that children are not as well prepared in some areas of the curriculum for their next steps in Year 1.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 September 2023 (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) | 51% | 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: 48 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 48 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.
- Pathfinder CofE Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Over Primary School 1.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Hatton Park Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Swavesey Primary School 2.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cottenham Primary School 3.1 mi Good
- Earith Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakington CofE Primary School 3.6 mi Good
- St Helen's Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published