Queen's Drive Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Peterborough
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Peterborough City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2021–2026 (miles)
All: every applicant was offered a place.
Queen's Drive Infant School is a primary school in Peterborough for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Peterborough has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Queen's Drive Infant 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2022 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2021 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2020 | Not published |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The latest Ofsted outcome (25 February 2025) was Not judged; the previous graded outcome (7 February 2023) was Requires improvement.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 45 of the 58 other Peterborough primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 30 first-choice applications for 33 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 6th lowest of 56 Peterborough primary schools.
- 24% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 39.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Peterborough.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Peterborough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Queen's Drive West, Peterborough, PE1 2UU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Peterborough
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this welcoming school.”
- “They share their knowledge with enthusiasm, demonstrating their inquiring minds.”
- “Pupils are eager to learn because staff make tasks engaging and fun.”
To improve
- “However, across the school, in a few subjects, the teaching of language related to some topics is not as focused as it could be.”
- “Teachers are sometimes unclear about the vocabulary that pupils need to learn.”
- “This means that when some pupils discuss a new idea, they cannot participate in meaningful discussions that help them learn and remember new concepts.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 30 first-preference applications, 33 offers in total, 30 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 Peterborough.
- All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gladstone Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Beeches Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lime Academy Abbotsmede 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dogsthorpe Academy 0.7 mi Not judged
- Dogsthorpe Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fulbridge Academy 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published