Godmanchester Community Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.876 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2023–2025 (miles)
Godmanchester Community Academy is a primary school in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2023. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
Godmanchester Community Academy 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 | 0.876 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 6.911 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 68% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2025's last distance offered, 0.876 miles, was nearer than in 2023 and 6th shortest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle 1.99 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 13.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 31.7% 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 Lane, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, PE29 2AG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 402 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils value their time at Godmanchester Community Academy.”
- “Pupils’ school experience is positive.”
- “There are rarely any issues with poor behaviour.”
To improve
- “This, however, is not always the case.”
- “Sometimes the activities that teachers select, including from the curriculum booklets, are not always as helpful to pupils as they should be.”
- “In these few instances, pupils do not learn as much as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 June 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) | 68% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 49 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 Anne's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Godmanchester Bridge Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hartford Infant and Preschool 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Hartford Junior School 1.1 mi Standards maintained
- Huntingdon Primary School 1.1 mi Good
- Stukeley Meadows Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Thongsley Fields Primary and Nursery School 1.5 mi Not judged
- St John's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade