United Kingdom / Regions / South Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire
East of England, England · population ~161k · 76 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 61 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in South Cambridgeshire
76 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (61 of 76 here), 96% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 76 schools.
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Comberton Village College | Secondary | 1,962 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Cambourne Village College | Secondary | 1,461 | Not graded | 11/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Impington Village College | Secondary | 1,449 | Good· | 11/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Swavesey Village College | Secondary | 1,246 | Outstanding | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sawston Village College | Secondary | 1,194 | Good· | 05/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Cottenham Village College | Secondary | 877 | Good | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Linton Village College | Secondary | 803 | Good | 24/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Northstowe Learning Community | Secondary | 772 | Good | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Bassingbourn Village College | Secondary | 658 | Good· | 26/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Melbourn Village College | Secondary | 585 | Not graded | 13/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School | Primary | 570 | Good· | 17/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Waterbeach Community Primary School | Primary | 527 | Not graded | 26/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Cottenham Primary School | Primary | 480 | Good | 16/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Pathfinder CofE Primary School | Primary | 462 | Good | 11/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Jeavons Wood Primary School | Primary | 430 | Good· | 04/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Hatton Park Primary School | Primary | 415 | Good· | 26/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Bellbird Primary School | Primary | 410 | Good | 09/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Monkfield Park Primary School | Primary | 407 | Good· | 27/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Histon and Impington Park Primary School | Primary | 403 | Outstanding | 25/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Gamlingay Village Primary | Primary | 395 | Good· | 11/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.