St Peter's School

When there are more applications than places for 2027-28 (Year 7), places are offered in this order of priority. Meeting a higher criterion beats meeting a lower one.

1. 1Looked after and previously looked after children — Looked after children and children who were previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, a child arrangements order, or special guardianship order, including children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
2. 2Catchment area, named feeder school and sibling — Children who live in the catchment area, attend named feeder schools and who have a sibling at the school at the time of admission (siblings attending Sixth Form excluded).
3. 3Sibling at the school — Children with a sibling at the school at the time of admission (siblings attending Sixth Form excluded).
4. 4Named feeder school and catchment area — Children who attend named feeder schools and who live in the catchment area.
5. 5Catchment area — Children who live in the catchment area.
6. 6Named feeder school, outside catchment area — Children who attend named feeder schools and who live outside of the catchment area.
7. 7Children of staff — Children of staff employed at schools in the Trust, where the member of staff has been employed by the Trust for two or more years at the time of application, or is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
8. 8Outside the catchment area — Children who live outside the catchment area.

If two applications tie: In cases of equal merit within a criterion, priority goes to children living nearest the school, measured by a straight line from the centre point of the home to the main pupil entrance to the school (distances produced by the Local Authority's Admissions team, or by local maps/online resources outside the Cambridgeshire mapping system). Where the distance between two children's homes and the school is the same, random allocation is used: names are placed in separate sealed envelopes and an independent person chosen by the Local Authority selects one.

This is a shared The CAM Academy Trust document covering multiple primary and secondary schools (Cambourne Village College, Comberton Village College, Melbourn Village College, St Peter's School, and several primaries); the Secondary Oversubscription criteria (7.2.2), which apply to all Trust secondaries including St Peter's, are reproduced here. Unlike Cambourne, Comberton and Melbourn Village Colleges, Appendix 1 does not name specific feeder primary schools for St Peter's - its catchment area is defined geographically (Hartford, Houghton, Wyton, RAF Wyton, the area served by Abbots Ripton Primary School, Green Tiles Road/Robertson Way, Sapley including Tower Fields, Great Stukeley, Stukeley Meadows, Huntingdon north and east of Ermine Street, and a list of named streets), so feeder_schools is left null and criteria 2/4/6 (which reference named feeder schools) may have no schools satisfying that element for St Peter's specifically. Children whose EHC plan names the school are admitted before these criteria are applied; not numbered within the list so not included as a criterion.

Published by the admission authority. Meeting a criterion never guarantees a place — it sets the order places are offered in. Full detail, other entry points and previous years are on the Admissions tab.