St Peter's School

Academy converter·Secondary school Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire·PE29 7DD
Composite score
49.5
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#2,576
National rank
#286
In East of England
#29
In Cambridgeshire
Top 81%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
39.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
33%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
53%
% EBacc grade 5+
10%
EBacc average points score
3.43

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
156 first choices, 218 places
First choices per place
0.72
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
317
any preference, for 218 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7320220.6620230.7220240.7220250.722026

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

Every child who put St Peter's 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,525
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
18.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
34.1%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,834
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%
214 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
88%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

School overview

St Peter's School is a secondary school serving Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 1,525 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 39.6, below the national average of 46. That is down 2.1 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

33% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 53% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. St Peter's School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 156 families who put it first were offered a place. 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 12.6%. There are about 20.4 pupils per teacher. St Peter's 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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