St Luke's CofE Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Cambridgeshire·CB4 3JZ
Composite score
56.0
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#5,159
National rank
#533
In East of England
#56
In Cambridgeshire
Top 35%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
79%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
111.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
110.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
3 first choices, 3 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
15
any preference, for 3 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.43
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020221.0020231.0020240.5720251.002026

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

Every child who put St Luke's CofE 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
94
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
27.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,447
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Luke's CofE Primary School is a primary school serving Cambridgeshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 94 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated St Luke's CofE Primary School 'Requires improvement'. 79% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 3.0 percentage points compared with the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 35% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 111 in reading and 110 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% 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 St Luke's CofE Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 3 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 16.2 pupils per teacher. If you are considering St Luke's CofE Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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