Benwick Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · March, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
4.835 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2024
Reception last distance offered, 2022–2024 (miles)
Benwick Primary School is a primary school in March, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 July 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2024 entry.
Benwick 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 2024 | 4.835 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 1.628 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2024, the last child offered a place lived 4.835 miles away, the 4th longest of 13 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.48 miles).
- For Reception 2026, there were 13 first-choice applications for 14 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%).
- In 2024/25 that result ranked 3rd highest 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, Benwick, March, PE15 0XA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 105 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 July 2023
Strengths
- “Benwick Primary School is a warm and happy school.”
- “Pupils find the new curriculum exciting and enjoy their learning.”
- “They know that staff have high expectations and are keen to meet these.”
To improve
- “However, because of the newness of the curriculum, pupils still have gaps in their knowledge in a minority of subjects.”
- “This is because teachers have not had time to revisit, check and consolidate what pupils know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 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) | 64% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 13 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.
- Lionel Walden Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingsfield Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Glebelands Primary Academy 4.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Thomas Eaton Primary Academy 4.7 mi Good
- Ramsey Junior School 4.7 mi Standards maintained
- Ramsey Spinning Infant School 4.8 mi Standards maintained
- Coates Primary School 5.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Bury CofE Primary School 5.3 mi Not judged Last distance published