Chesterton Community College

Gilbert Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 3NY

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About this school

Chesterton Community College is an Academy converter serving secondary age pupils, located in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. The school has 1,129 pupils enrolled. Ofsted: Outstanding (last overall grade). Last inspected 25 February 2025. The Headteacher is Lucy Scott & Mr Rolf Purvis. The school is administered by Cambridgeshire local authority. It belongs to EASTERN LEARNING ALLIANCE. It opened in 1 July 2011.

School details

Headteacher

Lucy Scott & Mr Rolf Purvis

Trust

EASTERN LEARNING ALLIANCE

Local authority

Cambridgeshire

Gender

Mixed

URN

136887

Contact

Admissions

Applications for places at Chesterton Community College are handled by the school or the local authority (Cambridgeshire). See the school's website for admissions arrangements, or read the GOV.UK guide to school admissions.

GCSE Performance (Key Stage 4)

• Attainment 8 is the school's average GCSE score across eight key subjects — higher is better.
• Progress 8 shows how much progress pupils made between ages 11 and 16 compared with similar pupils nationally — 0 is average, positive is above average. Shown for 2023-24, the most recent year the Department for Education published it.
• Grade 5+ / 4+ in English & maths is the share of pupils achieving at least a strong pass (5) or a standard pass (4) in both subjects.
• EBacc covers the English Baccalaureate subject mix: English, maths, sciences, a language, and history or geography.

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