Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School, Cambridge

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

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have created a positive, inclusive culture."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have robust quality assurance processes."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children get off to a great start in the early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that staff have the expertise to support vulnerable pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders' carefully developed strategies are all aligned to their clear vision."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed an inclusive, comprehensive personal development offer."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff have the expertise to check what pupils understand and use this information to adapt their teaching to address misconceptions, and embed adaptive inclusion practices into their teaching"; "Leaders should ensure that the wider personal development offer is carefully aligned with the curriculum to support pupils to secure a detailed understanding of key knowledge across subjects and about life in modern Britain"; "Leaders should ensure that staff in the early years consistently apply their knowledge and expertise to teach the early writing curriculum as intended".

From the headteacher's welcome: "I am very proud to be the Headteacher of Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School (HCCPS) - a unique school: two campuses, two communities, one family. I invite you to come and visit our campuses to experience for yourself our friendly, busy and happy atmosphere."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include guitar and recorder.

The school runs after-school care.

Coming up: an open evening on Monday 2 November 2026 at 6pm, an open day on Monday 9 November 2026 at 2pm, an open day on Tuesday 24 November 2026 at 9.30am and an open day on Tuesday 1 December 2026 at 9.30am. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 78% of Year 6 pupils at Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 63% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 74% in Cambridgeshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 85% in reading and 74% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 52 families put Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School as their first choice and 95 named it as one of their preferences, for 53 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 Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School are Caldecote Primary School (1.6 miles, Good, 100% reading, 88% maths); Dry Drayton CofE (C) Primary School, and Pre-School (1.8 miles, Good, 100% reading, 90% maths); Meridian Primary School (1.8 miles, Good, 74% reading, 77% maths); and Coton Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) Primary School (2 miles, Requires improvement, 81% reading, 76% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School.

29.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (47%), Asian (17%) and Mixed (9%).

In 2026, 94 pupils (16.1%) received SEN support and 14 (2.4%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School.

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Russet Walk (near), 100 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 18 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and burglary. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Cambridgeshire (57).

In 2024/25, Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School issued 7 suspensions, 1.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.