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The Wisbech Academy

SecondaryAges 11–16Free school

Wisbech, PE13 2RU · Cambridgeshire local authority

Wisbech’s School Grade D better than 6% of towns in England

Getting in
54/54
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
205 pupils
34% of its 600 places
Free school meals
40%
40 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about The Wisbech Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 205 pupils for 600 places
  • 40% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (54 of 54)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (PE13 2) sold for a median £190,000; Wisbech’s is £195,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at The Wisbech Academy?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

54
families put it first for September 2026
99
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. The Brooke Weston Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Cambridgeshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.15 per place
87% got their first choice
1.14 per place
83% got their first choice
1.07 per place
89% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
99% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
The Wisbech
0.55 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

102 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.

SEN support
11.8%England 14%
EHC plan
1%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
34.3%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
40.2%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 54%Boys 46%
Its letter

No letter for The Wisbech Academy

No published GCSE results: a new school with no Year 11 yet, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Wisbech Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in PE13 2, the school’s postcode sector

Wisbech property prices →
£190,000
median sale, 285 sales in 36 months · Wisbech £195,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025PE13 2Wisbech
PE13 2Wisbech

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£245K
Semi-detached
£175K
Terraced
£145K
Flat
£73K
PE13 2Wisbech

Homes in PE13 2 sell for about the same as Wisbech’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

8 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−C−CDCBThe Wisbech Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Wisbech, PE13 2RU

The Wisbech Academy: common questions

How hard is it to get into The Wisbech Academy?

For September 2026, 54 families put The Wisbech Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 99 places were offered in all.

How much do houses cost near The Wisbech Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, PE13 2, sold for a median £190,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (285 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; Wisbech’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.