Friday Bridge Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2019
2.859 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2019
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Friday Bridge Community Primary School is a primary school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 April 2022. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 entry.
Friday Bridge Community 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 2019 | 2.859 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2019, the last child offered a place lived 2.859 miles away, the 2nd longest of 6 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2019 last distance.
- 2024/25: 29% met expected reading, writing and maths standards, lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire that have results.
- Reception 2026 had 5 first-choice applications for 5 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 44.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.5 across 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
- Maltmas Drove, Friday Bridge, Wisbech, PE14 0HW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 89 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 44.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to attend this school.”
- “They arrive enthusiastically in the morning to be greeted personally by staff who know them all well.”
- “Pupils explain how their experience of school has improved over the last year.”
To improve
- “Some pupils' attendance is lower than it should be.”
- “Although teaching is improving, pupils are not taught consistently well.”
- “This means that pupils do not achieve as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 September 2026 (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) | 29% | 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: 5 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 5 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.
- Elm CofE Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Elm Road Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ramnoth Junior School 2.9 mi Good
- The Nene Infant & Nursery School 2.9 mi Good
- Beaupre Community Primary School 3.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Peter's CofE Aided Junior School 3.5 mi Good
- Clarkson Infants School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Peckover Primary School 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published