Clarkson Infants School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.509 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Clarkson Infants School is a primary school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 February 2022. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 entry.
Clarkson Infants 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 | 0.509 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 0.509 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 44 first-choice applications for 52 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 25.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 42.2% 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
- Trafford Road, Wisbech, PE13 2ES
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 187 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 February 2022
Strengths
- “Clarkson Infants is a friendly and happy school.”
- “Pupils enjoy their learning and spending time with their friends.”
- “They say that learning is fun.”
To improve
- “By spring 2019, the local authority was sufficiently concerned about the school to put an intervention group in place.”
- “Some pupils do not attain as well as they should.”
- “The pandemic has also been enormously disruptive to pupils’ early learning journeys.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 44 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.
- St Peter's CofE Aided Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Orchards Church of England Academy 0.6 mi Not judged
- The Nene Infant & Nursery School 0.6 mi Good
- Ramnoth Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Elm Road Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Peckover Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leverington Primary Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Elm CofE Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published