Middlefield Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school St Neots, Cambridgeshire·PE19 2QE
Composite score
43.2
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#9,849
National rank
#1075
In East of England
#114
In Cambridgeshire
Top 66%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
61%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
80%
35 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.21
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
61
any preference, for 29 places
Last place offered lived
0.22 mi
straight line, 2026 intake · 357 m
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.21
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0720221.2020231.3320241.0020251.212026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2026 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
5–11
Pupils on roll
215
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
11.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
2.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
1.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,777
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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School overview

Middlefield Primary Academy is a primary school serving St Neots, Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 215 pupils aged 5 to 11 on roll. 61% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Middlefield Primary Academy is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 35 first choices for 29 places. In 2026 the furthest child offered a place lived 0.22 miles from the school in a straight line, according to the council's published allocation figures; the distance changes every year with demand. Overall pupil absence was 2.9%. There are about 23.4 pupils per teacher. Middlefield Primary Academy 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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