Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.693 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2020–2025 (miles)
Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Dry Drayton CofE (C) 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 | 3.693 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 1.56 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 9.605 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 3.693 miles away, the 7th longest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- In 2026 there were 9 first-choice applications for 9 Reception offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- With 64 pupils on roll, there are 11.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.2 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
- Park Street, Dry Drayton, Cambridge, CB23 8DA
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 64 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “Dry Drayton is a small school, with a big heart and ambition.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all pupils.”
- “Pupils respond well to these and achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not precisely set out enough details of what pupils need to know and remember.”
- “Pupils tend to remember activities but do not always recall the detailed knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2023 (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) | 70% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 9 offers in total, 9 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.
- Bar Hill Community Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Oakington CofE Primary School 2.5 mi Good
- Coton Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School 2.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Girton Glebe Primary School 2.7 mi Good
- Caldecote Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hatton Park Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- University of Cambridge Primary School 3.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published