The Ashbeach Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
2.786 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2018–2025 (miles)
The Ashbeach Primary School is a primary school in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 February 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2025 entry.
The Ashbeach 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 | 2.786 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 3.1 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 0.827 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 6.015 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 2.9 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 2.786 miles from the school, 10th longest of the 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- That 2025 distance was nearer than in 2024 and about the same as in 2018; the sharpest swing between years came from 2023 to 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 13 first-choice applications for 13 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Ashbeach Drove, Ramsey St Mary's, Huntingdon, PE26 2TG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 141 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 13 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils come into school happily.”
- “Those arriving by bus wait their turn in a calm and orderly manner.”
- “Pupils are welcomed by adults who they are excited to see because they know that they support and care for them.”
To improve
- “However, their knowledge of fundamental British values such as democracy and rule of law is less secure.”
- “Pupils in the older years are less confident about their future beyond the school because they are yet to receive support with their move to secondary school.”
- “As a result, they are anxious about their future.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 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) | 63% | 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, 13 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.
- Ramsey Junior School 2.7 mi Standards maintained
- Ramsey Spinning Infant School 2.8 mi Standards maintained
- Bury CofE Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Upwood Primary Academy 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Holme CofE Primary School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Yaxley Infant School 4.8 mi Good
- Farcet CofE (C) Primary School 5.0 mi Good Last distance published
- William de Yaxley Church of England Academy 5.0 mi Good