New Road Primary & Nursery School
New Road, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1SZ
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- ASPIRE LEARNING TRUST (WHITTLESEY)
- Executive Headteacher
- Mr Rob Litten
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sponsor
- Aspire Learning Trust (Whittlesey)
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 260
- Pupils on roll
- 310
- URN
- 140538
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 01733204422
About this school
New Road Primary & Nursery School is a primary academy in Peterborough. It teaches children aged 2 to 11 and has 310 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 no longer gives schools a single overall grade. Each area of the school's work is graded on a five-point scale, and safeguarding is judged separately.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Early years
- Strong standard
- Safeguarding
- Met
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 34 | 29 | 32 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 47% | 14% | 31% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| Expected standard in reading | 56% | 31% | 44% |
| Expected standard in maths | 50% | 21% | 38% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 65% | 38% | 47% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 105.0 | 98.0 | 100.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 100.0 | 95.0 | 99.0 |
| Reading progress | -0.90 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -0.70 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -4.30 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How New Road Primary & Nursery 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 | Cambridgeshire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 47% | 56.8% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 14% | 55.7% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 31% | 57.4% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 9.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 8.1% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 6.5% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 229 |
| 2023/24 | 246 |
| 2024/25 | 261 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How New Road Primary & Nursery School compares
New Road Primary & Nursery School ranked 186th of 195 primary schools in Cambridgeshire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. 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 | 31% | 6.5% | 37% | 310 | — |
| Alderman Jacobs School | 66% | 5.9% | 25.6% | 671 | 0.8 miles |
| Park Lane Primary & Nursery School | 57% | 5.3% | 16.1% | 441 | 1.2 miles |
| Coates Primary School | 47% | 4.4% | 21.2% | 183 | 1.7 miles |
| Heritage Park Primary School | 73% | 3.7% | 11.7% | 202 | 4.1 miles |
| Saint Michael CofE Primary School | 64% | 5.1% | 17.8% | 408 | 4.5 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.
Inspection history
-
Graded inspection report14 April 2026
- 30 November 2021
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 36.99%
- English as an additional language
- 13.8%
- Overall absence
- 6.49%
- Persistent absence
- 17.12%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Alderman Jacobs School0.8 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Park Lane Primary & Nursery School1.2 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Coates Primary School1.7 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Heritage Park Primary School4.1 miles
Primary · Peterborough
-
Saint Michael CofE Primary School4.5 miles
Primary · Peterborough
Other schools in Peterborough
New Road Primary & Nursery School ranks 78th of the 78 ranked primary 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 New Road Primary & Nursery School teach?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School teaches children aged 2 to 11. It is a primary school in Peterborough.
- Who is the executive headteacher of New Road Primary & Nursery School?
- The executive headteacher of New Road Primary & Nursery School is Mr Rob Litten, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was New Road Primary & Nursery School last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected New Road Primary & Nursery 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 New Road Primary & Nursery School?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School has 310 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 2 to 11.
- Is New Road Primary & Nursery School full?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School has capacity for 260 pupils and 310 on roll (119%), so it is at or above 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 New Road Primary & Nursery School a faith school?
- No. New Road Primary & Nursery School has no designated religious character.
- Does New Road Primary & Nursery School have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records New Road Primary & Nursery School as having nursery classes.
- Who runs New Road Primary & Nursery School?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School is part of ASPIRE LEARNING TRUST (WHITTLESEY). Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have New Road Primary & Nursery School's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 47% in 2022/23 and 31% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does New Road Primary & Nursery School rank locally?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School ranked 186th of 195 primary schools in Cambridgeshire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 32% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is New Road Primary & Nursery School's absence rate?
- New Road Primary & Nursery School's overall absence rate is 6.5% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are New Road Primary & Nursery School's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, New Road Primary & Nursery School's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
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 1 July 2026.