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Alternative provision school · Academy alternative provision converter · ages 5 to 16 · Mixed

Ascham Road, Cambridge, CB4 2BD

  • Pupils5
  • Ages5 to 16
  • Latest Ofsted5 Jul 2022
  • FundingState-funded
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Ofsted inspections

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Graded inspection · 5 Jul 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

  • Quality of educationGood
  • Behaviour and attitudesGood
  • Personal developmentGood
  • Leadership and managementGood
  • Safeguarding is effectiveYes

Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).

Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1 · report published 30 Sep 2022

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Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.

Results

No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.

Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.

Pupils and attendance

Pupils
5 (capacity 48)
0 girls, 5 boys
Eligible for free school meals
80% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)

Pupils with SEN support

Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

2024/25

This school
22.2%

Pupils with an EHC plan

An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.

2024/25

This school
22.2%

Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years

2024/25

This school
66.7%

First language not English

This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.

2024/25

This school
0%

Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.

About the school

Type
Academy alternative provision converter (Academies)
Trust
OLIVE ACADEMIES
Sponsor
Olive Academies
Boys, girls or mixed
Mixed
Religious character
Does not apply
Opened
1 October 2015
Local authority
Cambridgeshire
Parliamentary constituency
Cambridge
URN
142378 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)

Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).

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