Chesterton Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.462 miles
Published by Cambridgeshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2025
Reception last distance offered, 2019–2025 (miles)
Chesterton Primary School is a primary school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 March 2025. Cambridgeshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2025 entry.
Chesterton 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 | 0.462 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 2.552 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.537 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 0.462 miles from the school, the 2nd shortest of 23 Cambridgeshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2020 and in 2019, and was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In the 2026 Reception entry there were 17 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 42% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd 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
- Green End Road, Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1RW
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Cambridgeshire
- Pupils on roll
- 173 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils live by the school’s core values: ‘Ready; Respectful; Resilient and Safe’.”
- “They understand how these values help them to make positive choices in school and in their day-to-day lives.”
- “Pupils respect each other’s differences.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, teachers lack the necessary knowledge to teach the curriculum effectively.”
- “Consequently, some pupils find it difficult to remember key knowledge and vocabulary.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not perform as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 May 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) | 42% | 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: 17 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 17 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.
- Shirley Community Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Grove Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Milton Road Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kings Hedges Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Galfrid School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Arbury Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fen Ditton Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Matthew's Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published