Murrow Primary Academy

About Murrow Primary Academy

Murrow Primary Academy holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained consistently across its two most recent inspections, including the most recent graded inspection in March 2022. In that inspection, every category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision — was rated Good. The school’s academic story is best told through its Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year. Just 27% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is significantly below the Cambridgeshire local authority average of 58%. This places Murrow 26th out of 28 primary schools in Fenland and in the bottom 50 nationally by this metric. The picture is mixed by subject: 64% reached the expected standard in writing, but only 45% did so in maths and 55% in reading. No pupils achieved the higher standard in any of the three subjects.

Looking deeper into the data, the school’s average scaled scores tell a slightly different story. Pupils achieved an average reading score of 100 — exactly the national benchmark — and an average maths score of 98, just two points below it. This suggests that while most children are working at a broadly age-appropriate level, relatively few are exceeding expectations. The school’s progress scores are not available in the data, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds compared with pupils nationally. In the local context, Murrow ranks 187th out of 210 primary schools in Cambridgeshire, placing it firmly in the lower half of the county. For parents weighing academic outcomes, the school’s results are below the local average, though the Good Ofsted rating indicates that inspectors found the quality of education to be effective overall.

Murrow Primary Academy is a small school with 106 pupils against a capacity of 105, and it was oversubscribed for the 2025/26 intake, receiving 21 applications for 14 places. All 14 first-preference applicants were offered a place, giving a first-preference success rate of 100%. The school serves a community with above-average disadvantage: 32.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average. Facilities include a Forest School, ICT suite, music rooms, sports hall, art studios and a library, and the school offers a range of sports including swimming, cricket and netball, plus clubs such as chess, book club and choir. SEND provision is broad, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, speech and language needs, autistic spectrum disorder, and physical disabilities. This is a school that may suit families who value a Good-rated setting with strong pastoral and SEND support, and who are comfortable with academic results that are below the local average.

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