Milton Road Primary School

Milton Road Primary School is a warm, inclusive and highly ambitious community primary school where pupils achieve well and feel safe. Inspectors found the quality of education to be good, with outstanding provision in behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years. The school’s curriculum is carefully designed and makes strong use of local connections, and pupils benefit from an exceptional early years offer, effective support for pupils with SEND, and a sharp focus on reading and writing. Behaviour is typically excellent, attendance is strong, and pupils’ personal development is exemplary, with meaningful leadership roles, visits and work-related experiences. Leadership is highly ambitious, governors are strongly committed, and staff feel well supported. The main area for improvement is that in a few subjects recent curriculum developments are still being embedded, meaning expectations of what pupils should know and can do are not consistently high, so pupils occasionally do not learn as deeply as they could. Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Strengths

• Warm, friendly and inclusive school culture where pupils feel welcome and safe
• Exceptionally high ambition for pupils, reflected in the ‘We are CREW, not passengers’ mission
• Carefully designed ambitious curriculum that makes good use of local connections
• Pupils achieve well across a wide range of subjects
• Outstanding early years provision that builds strong foundations in communication, speech and language
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities
• Strong focus on reading and writing, with accurate and fluent readers and impressive creative writing
• Typically excellent behaviour and strong attendance, including for disadvantaged pupils
• Exemplary personal development provision woven through school life
• Meaningful pupil leadership roles and a wide range of enriching experiences and visitors
• Outstanding leadership and management with a relentless focus on improvement
• Governors share leaders’ ambition and staff feel well supported in their workload and development

Areas for Improvement

• In a few subjects, recent curriculum developments are still being embedded
• Expectations of what pupils should know and can do are not consistently high in those areas, so pupils do not always learn as deeply as they could

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Milton Road Primary School attended 96.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 5.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.5% of pupils at Milton Road Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Milton Road Primary School had 26.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 8.5% of pupils at Milton Road Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Milton Road Primary School received £6,312 and spent £6,171 for each of its 424 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £418,000 (£987 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Milton Road Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Milton Road Primary School is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Milton Road Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Milton Road Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Milton Road Primary School have?

Milton Road Primary School has 424 pupils on roll.

What age range does Milton Road Primary School cover?

Milton Road Primary School for pupils aged 5 to 11.

What are Milton Road Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Milton Road Primary School?

Milton Road Primary School is at Ascham Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB4 2BD.