Shirley Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2020
0.902 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2020
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Shirley Community Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 entry.
Shirley 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 2020 | 0.902 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2020 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.902 miles away, the shortest of 13 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2020 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 43% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cambridgeshire.
- Reception 2026 had 23 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 17.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.8 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
- Nuffield Road, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1TF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 303 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “Shirley Community Primary School is a diverse and inclusive school.”
- “Pupils celebrate their differences saying that it ‘is what makes us unique’.”
- “Pupils are happy and develop positive relationships between each other and with adults.”
To improve
- “However, the planning for a small number of subjects is less advanced.”
- “Here, explicit links to the early years and key stage 3 curriculum are less clear.”
- “As a result, on occasion pupils are not as secure in the knowledge they need when moving to the next stage of the school’s planned curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 April 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) | 43% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 23 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.
- Chesterton Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Grove Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Kings Hedges Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fen Ditton Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Milton Road Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Galfrid School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Arbury Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Laurence Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi Good