Wheatfields Primary School

Foundation school·Primary school St Ives, Cambridgeshire·PE27 3WF
Composite score
37.1
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#11,811
National rank
#1286
In East of England
#143
In Cambridgeshire
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
30 first choices, 36 places
First choices per place
0.83
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
60
any preference, for 36 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.17
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420221.0020231.0020241.0020250.832026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Wheatfields Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
298
Gender
Mixed

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
18.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,011
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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School overview

Wheatfields Primary School is a primary school serving St Ives, Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. It has 298 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 57% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 13.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Wheatfields Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 36 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 22.9 pupils per teacher. Wheatfields Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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