Bewick Bridge Community Primary School, Cambridge

Ofsted's report card from its 14 April 2026 inspection grades Bewick Bridge Community Primary School on 7 areas: 7 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve highly at this school."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Bewick Bridge Community Primary School is a happy school where pupils want to attend."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "The school has implemented a well sequenced and ambitious curriculum across all subjects."

Early years - Strong standard. "Leaders demonstrate strong knowledge of early years education and ensure that the early years curriculum remains ambitious for all children."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders demonstrate a strong commitment to inclusion."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders are ambitious and determined to make the school the very best it can be."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders demonstrate clear commitment to pupils' personal development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to provide bespoke and focused support for teachers at the earlier stages of their careers, so they develop their practice and even further strengthen the quality of teaching across the school"; "Leaders should continue to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve even more highly, enabling them to close the remaining attainment gap with their non disadvantaged peers".

In its own words: "Bewick Bridge Community Primary School is a nurturing and ambitious school with a strong commitment to pursue academic, physical, social and emotional excellence at every stage of our development journey. Every day at Bewick Bridge, the staff and governors are working to make sure our pupils will: Develop the love for life-long learning and embrace challenges as opportunities to grow"

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, rugby, cricket, tennis, athletics, gymnastics, badminton, multi-sports, choir and coding.

The school runs after-school care.

In 2025, 90% of Year 6 pupils at Bewick Bridge Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 90% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 74% in Cambridgeshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 83% in reading and 86% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 29 families put Bewick Bridge Community Primary School as their first choice and 52 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Bewick Bridge Community Primary School are Cherry Hinton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 67% reading, 67% maths); Colville Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 69% reading, 69% maths); The Spinney Primary School (0.6 miles, Requires improvement, 79% reading, 79% maths); and Queen Emma Primary School (1 mile, Good, 84% reading, 87% maths).

Bewick Bridge Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 4 of them.

12.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 43.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (24%), Asian (22%) and Mixed (15%).

In 2026, 16 pupils (7.2%) received SEN support and 8 (3.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

Bewick Bridge Community Primary School had 15 teachers in 2026, one for every 12 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Cambridge Rail Station, about 2 miles away in a straight line.

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tamarin Gardens (near), 240 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 101 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Cambridgeshire (57), as is usual near a town centre.

Bewick Bridge Community Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.

The secondary schools closest to Bewick Bridge Community Primary School are St Bede's Inter-Church School (0.9 miles), The Netherhall School (1 mile) and Coleridge Community College (1.3 miles).