Buckden CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · St Neots, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.165 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2020–2025 (miles)
Buckden CofE Primary School is a primary school in St Neots, Cambridgeshire for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 23 April 2025. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Buckden 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 | 3.165 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 3.82 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 4.872 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2025 lived 3.165 miles away, the 9th longest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.99 miles).
- Reception's last distance in 2025 was nearer the school than in 2021 or 2020, and the 2025 figure was the shortest of the 3 years published.
- Reception 2026 had 43 first-choice applications for 44 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 56% 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
- School Lane, Buckden, St Neots, PE19 5TT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 331 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 23 April 2025
Strengths
- “This is a warm, nurturing, inclusive school where pupils are respectful of each other.”
- “Pupils understand the importance of equality.”
- “They know how their actions can impact local, national and global communities.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers do not present knowledge as clearly as it could be.”
- “The activities pupils complete in these subjects are sometimes not focused on the precise knowledge that the school wants them to remember.”
- “This slows pupils’ progress through the curriculum, as they do not learn and remember as much as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 June 2025 (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) | 56% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 43 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.
- Offord Primary School 1.6 mi Good
- Brampton Village Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Great Paxton CofE Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cromwell Academy 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Little Paxton Primary School 3.3 mi Good
- St Anne's CofE Primary School 3.5 mi Not judged
- Godmanchester Community Academy 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stukeley Meadows Primary School 3.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published