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Ravensthorpe Primary Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Brigstock Court, Peterborough PE3 7NB · ravensthorpeprimary.org.uk · 01733 263342
Overview
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 57%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Peterborough 61%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Peterborough Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 316
- 75% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Peterborough
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 39.2%
- First language not English
- 50.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Keys Academies Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Peterborough Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 34 families put the school first and 34 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 39 | 39 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 31 | 30 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 36 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 49 | 49 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 57% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 4% the higher standard. Across Peterborough it was 61%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼57% | 62% | ||
| ▼4% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼103 | 106 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 110761)
Ofsted
Ravensthorpe Primary Academy was judged Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 11 June 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Requires improvement
- Inspected
- 11 Jun 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Jun 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 110761), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2022Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jan 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110761)
Feb 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 110761)
What parents said
83% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (30 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 83%
- Replies
- 30
- 8% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 57% who had a child bullied