The Bellbird Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
4.171 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2018–2025 (miles)
The Bellbird Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 July 2024. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2025 entry.
The Bellbird 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 | 4.171 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 1.328 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.372 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 1.328 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 0.471 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 4.171 miles away, the 5th longest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle 1.99 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2025 was further than in 2023 and in 2018, and the 2025 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 46 first-choice applications for 46 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 5th highest 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
- Link Road, Sawston, Cambridge, CB22 3GB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 426 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at The Bellbird enjoy the subjects they study.”
- “They particularly enjoy learning about famous musicians or how to play musical instruments.”
- “The school has raised its expectations for what pupils can achieve.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the way staff check pupils’ understanding lacks precision.”
- “Here, the school does not have a secure enough understanding of some of the pupils’ gaps in knowledge.”
- “This can lead to some pupils not doing as well as they should in some subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 2024 (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: 46 first-preference applications, 46 offers in total, 46 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.
- The Icknield Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- William Westley Church of England VC Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stapleford Community Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Babraham CofE (VC) Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Duxford Church of England Community Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good
- Great and Little Shelford CofE (Aided) Primary School 2.2 mi Good
- Great Abington Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Hauxton Primary School 3.2 mi Good Last distance published