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Best secondary schools in Cambridgeshire

32 of 41 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Cambridgeshire schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 29 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Chesterton Community College Cambridge 1.05 Not judged improving oversubscribed 1.68 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 St Bede's Inter-Church School Cambridge 1.02 Outstanding oversubscribed 1.63 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Sawston Village College Cambridge 0.87 Good about even 1.03 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Parkside Community College Cambridge 0.8 Outstanding improving oversubscribed 1.19 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
5 Soham Village College Ely 0.75 Outstanding improving oversubscribed 1.3 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
6 Ely College Ely 0.65 Good oversubscribed 1.16 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
7 Impington Village College Cambridge 0.65 Not judged oversubscribed 1.15 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 Trumpington Community College Cambridge hidden gem 0.61 Good improving about even 0.93 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 Sawtry Village Academy Huntingdon 0.56 Good improving about even 1.05 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 Swavesey Village College Cambridge hidden gem 0.55 Outstanding about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
11 Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology Cambridge 0.45 Good improving — approximate
12 Comberton Village College Cambridge 0.42 Not judged about even 1.1 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Cambourne Village College Cambridge 0.3 Not judged oversubscribed 1.19 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
14 Cottenham Village College Cambridge hidden gem 0.26 Good improving undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
15 Hinchingbrooke School Huntingdon 0.24 Good oversubscribed 1.29 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
16 Coleridge Community College Cambridge hidden gem 0.23 Good improving undersubscribed 0.47 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
17 North Cambridge Academy Cambridge hidden gem 0.19 Good undersubscribed 0.45 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
18 St Ivo Academy St Ives hidden gem 0.14 Good improving about even 0.94 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
19 Longsands Academy St Neots hidden gem 0.13 Good undersubscribed 0.76 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
20 Bottisham Village College Cambridge 0.12 Requires improvement declining undersubscribed 0.78 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
21 The Netherhall School Cambridge hidden gem 0.1 Good undersubscribed 0.77 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
22 Witchford Village College Ely 0.05 Good about even 0.98 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
23 Abbey College, Ramsey Ramsey 0.0 Good improving about even 1.07 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
24 Linton Village College Cambridge -0.08 Good declining oversubscribed 1.17 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
25 Bassingbourn Village College Royston hidden gem -0.15 Good about even 0.95 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
26 St Peter's School Huntingdon hidden gem -0.16 Good undersubscribed 0.72 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
27 Thomas Clarkson Academy Wisbech -0.23 Good improving about even 1.07 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
28 Ernulf Academy St. Neots -0.44 Not judged undersubscribed 0.85 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
29 Melbourn Village College Royston -0.48 Not judged declining undersubscribed 0.69 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
30 Vista Academy Littleport Ely -0.51 Inadequate undersubscribed 0.62 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
31 Sir Harry Smith Community College Peterborough -0.66 Not judged about even 0.92 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
32 Neale-Wade Academy March -0.73 Requires improvement about even 0.96 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate

Also in Cambridgeshire

9 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Cambridgeshire, not a fairer one.

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