Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy

About Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy

Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy received an Inadequate rating from Ofsted following its most recent graded inspection in October 2022, a significant drop from its previous Good rating in 2012. The inspection found all four key areas — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision — to be Inadequate, with leadership and management also rated at the lowest level. On the academic front, the school's most telling metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined at Key Stage 2: just 38% did so in the 2023/24 academic year. That is well below the Cambridgeshire local authority average of 58%, placing the school 178th out of 210 primary schools of the same type in the area. In national rankings, it sits in the bottom 50 tier, at the 93rd percentile nationally — meaning roughly 93% of primary schools outperformed it on this measure.

Digging into the individual subject results, the picture is mixed. Reading is a relative strength: 88% of pupils met the expected standard and 13% reached the higher standard, with an average scaled score of 105. Maths tells a different story — only 50% hit the expected standard, none reached the higher standard, and the average score was exactly 100. Writing was the weakest area, with just 38% meeting expectations and no pupils achieving the higher standard. The school has no progress scores available for any of the three subjects, which limits how much you can say about how much value it adds relative to pupils' starting points. With only 86 pupils on roll and a capacity of 105, the school is not full, and 16.5% of children are eligible for free school meals — slightly above the national average for primary schools.

Despite the academic challenges, the school offers a broad set of facilities including an art studio, ICT suite, sports hall, playing fields, music rooms, a sensory room and a chapel. Clubs include chess, choir, art, book club and gardening, while sports provision covers gymnastics, swimming, dance and tennis. The school has a nursery provision for children from age three and is oversubscribed for Reception places in 2025/26, with eight first-preference applications for eight places and a total of nine applications. It also has designated SEND support for moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, physical disability and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a small village Church of England primary that may suit families who value its rural setting and facilities, but the Ofsted rating and below-average outcomes mean it is one to visit and question closely.

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