St Bede's Inter-Church School

Academy converter·Secondary school Cambridgeshire·CB1 3TD
Composite score
77.0
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National rank
#23
In East of England
#3
In Cambridgeshire
Top 7%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
61.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
74%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
86%
% EBacc grade 5+
48%
EBacc average points score
5.86

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
60%
288 first choices, 177 places
First choices per place
1.63
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
473
any preference, for 177 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.01
00.511.522.5
1 per place
1.3620221.8420231.6120241.6120251.632026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Bede's Inter-Church School yet. Cambridgeshire 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).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
938
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England/Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
25.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.0%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
8.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
12.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,001
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
97%
181 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
96%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About St Bede's Inter-Church School

St Bede's Inter-Church School is a secondary school in Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England/Roman Catholic religious character. Around 938 pupils aged 11 to 16 attend the school. The school holds an 'Outstanding' judgement from Ofsted. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 61.6, well above the national average of 46. That is down 3.2 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 7% of secondary schools in England.

74% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 86% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 60% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (288 first choices for 177 places). After Year 11, 97% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 15.2 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.

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