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Secondary school in Peterborough

Hampton Gardens Secondary School

Hartland Avenue, Hampton Gardens, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE7 8HR

Sixth form
School website 01733246700

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 20 January 2026.

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

47 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

48% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

69% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

26% 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 middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.13confidence interval -0.06 to 0.33

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
C
Average points per entry
29.9

England average 32.3

A level students
98

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1310
Places
1500
How full
87% full — 1310 of 1500 places taken
Girls / boys
662 / 648
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
18%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
23%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
9%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
56%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
200

After sixth form

Went to university
22%

England 50%

In education, work or training
67%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
18

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

0% 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
58%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
33

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 023H, 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
46%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
7%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
86%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
4%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
13%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Free schools
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
HAMPTON ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Kevin Ainslie
Local authority
Peterborough
Ward
Hargate and Hempsted
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire
URN
143641

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Hampton CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 44.5 0.3 mi
Stanground AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 46.7 1.6 mi
Nene Park AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 45.6 1.7 mi
Ormiston Bushfield AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 46.3 2 mi
The Peterborough SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.7 mi
Jack Hunt AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 44.2 3.2 mi
The King's (The Cathedral) SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 63.2 3.4 mi
St John Fisher Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 3.6 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
Rutlish SchoolVoluntary controlled school No grade 60.5
The Elton High SchoolCommunity school No grade 44.3
Wexham SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 39.3
Cranford Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 51.7
Camborne Science and International AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 49.7
Overton Grange SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.8
St Bernard's Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 48.9
Pleckgate High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2024 49.2

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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