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Secondary school in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

St Peter's School

St Peter's Road, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 7DD

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01480459581

Ofsted

Goodas at 22 September 2022

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 22 September 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

39.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

33% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

53% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

26% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.16confidence interval -0.35 to 0.03

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
D+
Average points per entry
22.7

England average 32.3

A level students
70

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1506
Places
1585
How full
Nearly full — 1506 of 1585 places taken
Girls / boys
721 / 785
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
28%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
33%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
19%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
6%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
14%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
46%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
214

After sixth form

Went to university
37%

England 50%

In education, work or training
81%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
62

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

4% 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
56%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
45

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 Huntingdonshire 012D, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
54%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
21%

England 17%

Households with no car
19%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
27%

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
THE CAM ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Emma Butler
Local authority
Cambridgeshire
Ward
Huntingdon North
Constituency
Huntingdon
URN
137248

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Hinchingbrooke SchoolAcademy converter Good 2021 50.3 1 mi
St Ivo AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 47.1 4.3 mi
Sawtry Village AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 49.4 7.8 mi
Longsands AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 48.5 7.9 mi
Swavesey Village CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 54.6 8.2 mi
Abbey College, RamseyAcademy converter Good 2023 46.1 8.3 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
The Steiner Academy HerefordAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 51
Derby Moor Spencer AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 47.7
Perryfields AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 43.8
Thomas Tallis SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 45.6
Thomas More Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 42.1
Burnside CollegeFoundation school No grade 44.2
Oasis Academy CoulsdonAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 44.8
Bristol Metropolitan AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 46.9

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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