Westwood Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school March, Cambridgeshire·PE15 8JT
Composite score
30.8
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#13,256
National rank
#1467
In East of England
#167
In Cambridgeshire
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% 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
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
80 first choices, 83 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
113
any preference, for 83 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9720230.9920241.0020250.962026

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

Every child who put Westwood Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
747
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
37.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
23.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,118
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Westwood Primary School is a primary school serving March, Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 747 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 42% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 5.0 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). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Westwood Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 83 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 37% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Westwood Primary 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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