Eastfield Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2022
7.808 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 19 April 2022
Unlock every school · £9.99 Open on the map →Eastfield Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in St Ives, Cambridgeshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 27 November 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 entry.
Eastfield Infant and Nursery 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 2022 | 7.808 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 2022 lived 7.808 miles away, the longest of 12 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2022 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 49 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- It has 23.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.6 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
- Pig Lane, St Ives, PE27 5QT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 211 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 27 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy school.”
- “They are kind to each other and cooperate well.”
- “The children in Nursery quickly understand teachers’ expectations.”
To improve
- “In some other subjects, the school is still developing effective methods of checking pupils’ progress through the curriculum.”
- “This means that leaders and teachers do not always know when pupils have not learned parts of the curriculum.”
- “Occasionally, teachers ask questions that pupils do not have the knowledge to answer.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 49 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.
- Westfield Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- Wheatfields Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Thorndown Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hemingford Grey Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holywell CofE Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fenstanton and Hilton Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Wyton on the Hill Community Primary School 2.0 mi Good
- Houghton Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published