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Secondary school in Peterborough

Arthur Mellows Village College

Helpston Road, Glinton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE6 7JX

Sixth form
School website 01733252235

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 7 May 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

46.5 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

45% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

69% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

11% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.02confidence interval -0.19 to 0.16

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
35.9

England average 32.3

A level students
131

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1672
Places
1720
How full
Nearly full — 1672 of 1720 places taken
Girls / boys
806 / 866
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
22%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
19%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
52%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
261

After sixth form

Went to university
44%

England 50%

In education, work or training
87%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
11%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
166

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

24% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
72%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
190

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Peterborough 001A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
31%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
87%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
7%

England 17%

Households with no car
9%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
44%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
FOUR CS MAT
Headteacher
Head of College: John Gilligan
Local authority
Peterborough
Ward
Glinton and Castor
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire
URN
136266

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Ken Stimpson AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2022 41.7 1.6 mi
Queen Katharine AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 32.5 2.5 mi
The Deepings SchoolAcademy converter No grade 38.6 2.6 mi
Iqra AcademyOther independent school No grade 2.7 mi
Manor Drive Secondary AcademyFree schools No grade 3.6 mi
Jack Hunt AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 44.2 4.2 mi
Thomas Deacon AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.1 4.4 mi
Greater Peterborough UTCUniversity technical college Good 2022 38.2 4.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Hele's SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.7
Soham Village CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 51.2
Copleston High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 46.9
Tenbury High Ormiston AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 39.9
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 50
Dorothy Stringer SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 53.3
Willingdon Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 45
The Queen Katherine SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.8

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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