Houghton Primary School
About Houghton Primary School
Houghton Primary School sits within the Cambridgeshire local authority, a large county with 210 primary schools, and ranks 37th among them. In the more immediate Huntingdonshire area, where it is placed 8th out of 55 schools, it sits behind top-performing peers such as Histon and Impington Brook Primary School, Caldecote Primary School, and Abbots Ripton CofE Primary School. The school is a state-funded, mixed-gender primary for children aged 4 to 11, with a current roll of 181 pupils against a capacity of 210. It has no religious character and is led by headteacher Andrew Spencer. In its most recent ungraded Ofsted inspection in 2023, the school was confirmed to have maintained its Good rating, a standard it has held consistently since at least its previous graded inspection in 2014, when leadership and management, early years provision, and overall effectiveness were all judged Good.
Key Details
Ofsted Inspection Breakdown
23 Mar 2023Latest monitoring visit (23 Mar 2023): School remains Good
Source: Ofsted, 20 Mar 2014. Ratings: 1=Outstanding, 2=Good, 3=Requires Improvement, 4=Inadequate.
SEND Support
Source: Department for Education, 2024/25. Support availability based on current student population.
School day
Teaching hours
08:50 – 15:15
Breakfast club
07:30-08:40
After-school care
15:15-18:00
Source: houghton.cambs.sch.uk. Extracted automatically — confirm with the school before relying on these times.
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