Park Street CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
5.378 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2018–2025 (miles)
Park Street CofE Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 24 January 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2025 entry.
Park Street CofE 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 | 5.378 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 1.651 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 2.17 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2025 the last Reception child offered a place lived 5.378 miles from the school, the 4th longest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was further than in 2022 and in 2018, and the 2025 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 14 first-choice applications for 17 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Lower Park Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 116 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 24 January 2023
Strengths
- “All pupils feel welcome at Park Street CofE Primary School.”
- “A typical pupils’ view is that ‘everyone here respects you’.”
- “Pupils value being part of such a diverse school.”
To improve
- “Subject leaders have not yet had enough opportunity to check their plans are working.”
- “Also, in these newly updated subjects, staff are still getting to grips with how to best adapt activities so that all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), embed the knowledge they need.”
- “However, there are times when adults do not extend these play activities further meaning children do not deepen their understanding.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 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) | 72% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 14 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.
- St Luke's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement
- Milton Road Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Matthew's Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Arbury Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mayfield Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Pauls CofE VA Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Newnham Croft Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published