Bottisham Village College

Academy converter·Secondary school Cambridgeshire·CB25 9DL
Composite score
63.9
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National rank
#78
In East of England
#14
In Cambridgeshire
Top 25%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
51.1
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
58%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
77%
% EBacc grade 5+
23%
EBacc average points score
4.53

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
194 first choices, 250 places
First choices per place
0.78
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
340
any preference, for 250 places
Applications from another council area
27%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0120221.0120231.0320240.7620250.782026

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

Every child who put Bottisham Village College 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,465
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.8%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
9.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.1%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
20.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,162
Typical secondary: £7,815

“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.

In education, training or work
92%
236 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
87%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Bottisham Village College at a glance

Located in Cambridgeshire, Bottisham Village College is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,465 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 51.1 — above the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 25% of secondary schools nationally.

58% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 77% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Bottisham Village College their first choice was offered one of its 250 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.1%. There are about 16.2 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Bottisham Village College, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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