Ditton Lodge Primary School, Newmarket
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 6 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Ditton Lodge is a warm, welcoming school where all children thrive and achieve highly. Teachers have exceptionally high expectations and expertly teach an ambitious curriculum that helps pupils become fluent readers and mathematicians. The school excels at including every child - whether they have additional needs or face other challenges - ensuring no pupil is disadvantaged and all feel valued and celebrated.
Key Strengths
- Pupils achieve highly with published outcomes well above national averages, including in reading, writing and mathematics
- Attendance is well above national average with pupils keen to learn and benefit from excellent provision
- Exemplary pupil behaviour driven by understanding the value of learning and respect for each other, with bullying being rare
- Ambitious, logically ordered curriculum that is expertly taught with precise checks on understanding to spot and address gaps
- Comprehensive support for pupils with special educational needs and disadvantaged pupils ensures all groups achieve highly
Areas for Improvement
- Some early years staff interactions do not maximise children's opportunities to secure key knowledge, with occasional slow engagement or interactions that are too quick
- Early years provision identified as an area for improvement with strategies being implemented to secure improvements
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, concerns are actively identified and acted upon, and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Clubs and activities during extended day each week, Year 6 prefect roles, travel ambassadors programme providing road safety information
Ditton Lodge Primary School is a high-performing primary school where pupils, including disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs, achieve well above national averages. The school has an ambitious curriculum that is expertly taught, with strong attendance, exemplary behaviour, and a culture where safeguarding and inclusion are central to everything the school does.
At a Glance
8.8%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 81% to 96%. Maths has improved from 96% to 100%. Writing has improved from 81% to 96%.
Class Sizes
29.7
Avg class size
30.5
Infant (KS1)
29.3
KS2
6
Total classes
2 classes with more than 30 pupils
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
97%
Near capacity
204 pupils
210 capacity
6 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Newmarket
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Newmarket
Admissions Demand - Cambridgeshire
Places available
8,190
Applications
6,413
Got 1st preference
94.4%
Got preferred school
98.8%
Primary admissions across Cambridgeshire (2025/26)
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.53504%
Overall absence
7.10383%
Persistent absence
183
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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