The King's (The Cathedral) School
Primary performance (KS2 SATs)
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Getting a place
Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this
We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The King's (The Cathedral) School yet. Peterborough does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.
Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).
Secondary performance (KS4 GCSE)
The King's (The Cathedral) School is an all-through school covering ages 7–18, so it has two sets of results. The headline score above reflects its primary (KS2) results, ranked against other primaries; its GCSE (KS4) results — ranked separately against other secondaries — are shown here.
Three-year trends
Last three years of DfE data. How to read trends
Ofsted judgements
School profile
- Age range
- 7–18
- Pupils on roll
- 1,261
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-Selective
Pupil background
Special educational needs
Attendance
Staffing & funding
“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means
What pupils do next
The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.
DfE, KS4 destination measures.
Nearby primary schools
Location
Official sources
The King's (The Cathedral) School at a glance
Located in Peterborough, The King's (The Cathedral) School is an all-through school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 1,261 pupils aged 7 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Outstanding' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 80% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That is down 7.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. At GCSE, the school's average Attainment 8 score was 63.2, well above the national average of 46. On our composite score, The King's (The Cathedral) School ranks among the top 15% of primary schools in England for its primary (KS2) results. For its secondary (KS4) results, it ranks among the top 6% of secondary schools in England.
Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 110 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). At Key Stage 4, 76% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 19.6 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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.