Queen's Drive Infant School
Queen's Drive West, Peterborough, PE1 2UU
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Community school
- Ages
- 5 to 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Skinner
- Constituency
- Peterborough
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 270
- Pupils on roll
- 208
- URN
- 110723
- Local authority
- Peterborough
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01733343914
About this school
Queen's Drive Infant School is a community primary school in Peterborough. It teaches children aged 5 to 7 and has 208 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Trends over time
How Queen's Drive Infant School has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 8.1% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 6.2% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 241 |
| 2023/24 | 235 |
| 2024/25 | 225 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Queen's Drive Infant School compares
Its absence rate was lower than 32% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | — | 6.5% | 29.8% | 208 | — |
| All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School | 60% | 5.1% | 24.1% | 418 | 0.3 miles |
| Gladstone Primary Academy | 44% | 8.5% | 44.4% | 469 | 0.4 miles |
| The Beeches Primary School | 67% | 5.7% | 44.9% | 619 | 0.5 miles |
| Lime Academy Abbotsmede | 57% | 5.7% | 41.4% | 423 | 0.6 miles |
| Dogsthorpe Academy | 45% | 7.4% | 48.7% | 318 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 29.78%
- English as an additional language
- 86.2%
- Overall absence
- 6.47%
- Persistent absence
- 25.47%
Location
Nearby schools
-
All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Gladstone Primary Academy0.4 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
The Beeches Primary School0.5 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Lime Academy Abbotsmede0.6 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Dogsthorpe Academy0.7 miles
Primary · Peterborough
Other schools in Peterborough
- Alderman Jacobs School Primary
- All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School Primary
- Baston CE Primary School Primary
- Bishop Creighton Academy Primary
- Braybrook Primary Academy Primary
- Brewster Avenue Infant School Primary
- Castor CofE Primary School Primary
- Coates Primary School Primary
- Deeping St James Community Primary School Primary
- Discovery Primary Academy Primary
- Dogsthorpe Academy Primary
- Dogsthorpe Infant School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Queen's Drive Infant School teach?
- Queen's Drive Infant School teaches children aged 5 to 7. It is a primary school in Peterborough.
- Who is the headteacher of Queen's Drive Infant School?
- The headteacher of Queen's Drive Infant School is Mrs Sarah Skinner, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Queen's Drive Infant School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Queen's Drive Infant School, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Queen's Drive Infant School?
- Queen's Drive Infant School has 208 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 5 to 7.
- Is Queen's Drive Infant School full?
- Queen's Drive Infant School has capacity for 270 pupils and 208 on roll (77%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Queen's Drive Infant School a faith school?
- No. Queen's Drive Infant School has no designated religious character.
- Does Queen's Drive Infant School have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Queen's Drive Infant School as having no nursery classes.
- What is Queen's Drive Infant School's absence rate?
- Queen's Drive Infant School's overall absence rate is 6.5% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- Does Queen's Drive Infant School publish exam results?
- OfferDay shows exam results for a school only where the Department for Education has published them, and none are shown for Queen's Drive Infant School. That is usual for infant, nursery, special and independent schools, and for schools without recent published results.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 29 June 2026.