Sir Harry Smith Community College

Academy converter·Secondary school Peterborough, Cambridgeshire·PE7 1XB
Composite score
50.8
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National rank
#269
In East of England
#27
In Cambridgeshire
Top 77%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
40.6
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
34%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
57%
% EBacc grade 5+
11%
EBacc average points score
3.50

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
190 first choices, 206 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
229
any preference, for 206 places
Applications from another council area
7%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0620221.1020230.8820240.9320250.922026

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

Every child who put Sir Harry Smith Community 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
1,104
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
25.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
4.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
11.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
30.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,955
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%
175 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Sir Harry Smith Community College

Sir Harry Smith Community College is a secondary school in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 1,104 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 40.6 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 2.1 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

34% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 57% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Sir Harry Smith Community College their first choice was offered one of its 206 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 11.8%. There are about 21.1 pupils per teacher. Sir Harry Smith Community College 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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