Thorndown Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · St Ives, Cambridgeshire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.715 miles

Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Thorndown Primary School is a primary school in St Ives, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2022. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.

Thorndown 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 2026	0.715 mi

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.715 miles, 12th shortest of the 62 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.74 miles.
In 2024/25, 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Reception 2026 had 68 first-choice applications for 61 offers; all 61 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
17.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 12.4% 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: Hill Rise, St Ives, PE27 6SE
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Council: Cambridgeshire
Pupils on roll: 478 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 17.8% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 20.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 2 November 2022

Strengths

“Pupils at Thorndown Primary School thrive within its supportive, caring, and inclusive environment.”
“Relationships are warm and respectful.”
“Pupils are kind and considerate towards each other.”

To improve

“While the curriculum is well established in most subjects, there are a few curriculum areas where plans are not fully in place across all year groups.”
“In these curriculum areas, pupils do not develop their understanding or remember as well because they are yet to be taught all of the required content.”
“Leaders do not currently have a system in place to keep a check on behaviour across the whole school.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 December 2022 (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)	61%	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: 68 first-preference applications, 61 offers in total, 61 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.

Wheatfields Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged
Westfield Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
Eastfield Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Wyton on the Hill Community Primary School 1.2 mi Good
Hemingford Grey Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Houghton Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Holywell CofE Primary School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
Fenstanton and Hilton Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published