John Clare Primary School
Helpston, PE6 7DX · Peterborough local authority
Helpston’s School Grade B+ better than 69% of towns in England
What stands out about John Clare Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 92% of England’s primary schools
- 80% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 18 points above England’s schools
- 12% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (18 of 18)
- Homes in its postcode sector (PE6 7) sold for a median £280,000; Helpston’s is £370,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 80%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 92% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Peterborough avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at John Clare Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (3), 2021 (1), 2023 (2), 2025 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Soke Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Peterborough council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Helpston and Peterborough, side by side
2023–2025All 54 graded primaries in Peterborough. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Helpston’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barnack CofE (Controlled) Primary School | A+ | 11% | 96% |
| St John's Church School | A+ | 32% | 90% |
| Winyates Primary School | A+ | 48% | 87% |
| The King's (The Cathedral) School | A | 14% | 81% |
| John Clare Primary School | A | 12% | 80% |
| Hampton Hargate Primary School | A− | 18% | 75% |
| The Duke of Bedford Primary School | A− | 27% | 74% |
| Norwood Primary School | A− | 33% | 73% |
| Nene Valley Primary School | A− | 9% | 72% |
| Heritage Park Primary School | A− | 12% | 71% |
| Oakdale Primary School | B+ | 15% | 69% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | B | 14% | 67% |
| Newark Hill Academy | B | 33% | 66% |
| Hampton Vale Primary Academy | B | 18% | 65% |
| The Beeches Primary School | B− | 44% | 64% |
| All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School | B− | 21% | 63% |
| Werrington Primary School | B− | 14% | 63% |
| Orton Wistow Primary School | B− | 10% | 63% |
| Old Fletton Primary School | B− | 40% | 62% |
| Fulbridge Academy | B− | 34% | 61% |
| Eye CofE Primary School | C+ | 21% | 60% |
| Bishop Creighton Academy | C+ | 35% | 60% |
| Ormiston Meadows Academy | C+ | 28% | 60% |
| Peakirk-Cum-Glinton Cofe Primary Academy | C+ | 15% | 60% |
| Leighton Primary and Preschool | C+ | 44% | 58% |
| Castor CofE Primary School | C | 12% | 57% |
| Paston Ridings Primary School | C | 55% | 56% |
| Wittering Primary School | C | 23% | 56% |
| Discovery Primary Academy | C | 40% | 56% |
| St Augustine's CofE (Voluntary Aided) Junior School | C | 36% | 55% |
| Hampton College | C | 25% | 55% |
| Highlees Primary School | C | 54% | 54% |
| Welland Academy | C | 52% | 54% |
| Longthorpe Primary Academy | C | 15% | 54% |
| Braybrook Primary Academy | C | 44% | 54% |
| Eyrescroft Primary School | C− | 41% | 53% |
| Thorpe Primary Academy | C− | 33% | 53% |
| St Botolph's Church of England Primary School | C− | 18% | 53% |
| William Law CofE Primary School | C− | 25% | 52% |
| Nova Primary Academy | C− | 44% | 52% |
| Welbourne Primary Academy | C− | 43% | 52% |
| Southfields Primary School | C− | 37% | 51% |
| Lime Academy Abbotsmede | C− | 42% | 51% |
| Woodston Primary School | C− | 33% | 51% |
| West Town Primary Academy | C− | 26% | 50% |
| Lime Academy Watergall | C− | 45% | 50% |
| Stanground St Johns CofE Primary School | C− | 24% | 49% |
| Thomas Deacon Academy | D | 36% | 47% |
| Ravensthorpe Primary Academy | D | 39% | 47% |
| Gladstone Primary Academy | D | 43% | 45% |
| Dogsthorpe Academy | D | 50% | 44% |
| Lime Academy Parnwell | D | 66% | 43% |
| Gunthorpe Primary School | D | 46% | 43% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | D− | 30% | 36% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025127 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
John Clare Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting April 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2022.
Living near John Clare Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in PE6 7, the school’s postcode sector
Helpston property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in PE6 7 sell for well under Helpston’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Location
Directions ↗Helpston, PE6 7DX
Primary schools near John Clare Primary School
The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.
John Clare Primary School: common questions
Is John Clare Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 92% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 80% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in April 2026.
How hard is it to get into John Clare Primary School?
For September 2026, 18 families put John Clare Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 18 places were offered in all.
What is John Clare Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near John Clare Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, PE6 7, sold for a median £280,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (375 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Helpston’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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