Priory Park Infant School & Pre-School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.374 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2018–2026 (miles)
Priory Park Infant School & Pre-School is a primary school in St Neots, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 16 May 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Priory Park Infant School & Pre-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 2026 | 1.374 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.822 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 1.313 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.374 miles away, the 27th shortest of 62 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published last distance, this one included.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further than in 2019 and about the same as in 2018, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 60 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 58 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place.
- The school has 17.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 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
- Almond Road, St Neots, PE19 1DZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 170 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 16 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils think highly of their school.”
- “The school’s values encourage tolerance and respect.”
- “Pupils live this out and are kind to each other.”
To improve
- “On occasions, pupils do not get the opportunity to revisit aspects of learning often enough.”
- “When this happens, pupils are not able to routinely recall what they have learned.”
- “In these cases, new learning does not build upon pupils’ prior learning well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 60 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Priory Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School St Neots 0.5 mi Standards maintained
- Eynesbury CofE C Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Winhills Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good
- The Round House Primary Academy 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wintringham Primary Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Crosshall Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Crosshall Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good