Schools in St Ives
St Ives' 11 schools are coordinated by Cambridgeshire County Council, with 8 primaries and 2 secondaries — Westfield Academy (formerly Westfield Community School) and St Ivo Academy — serving this Fen Edge market town between Huntingdon and Cambridge. Cambridgeshire uses straight-line distance after sibling priority for community schools. St Ives is not a selective area; both secondaries are non-selective mixed comprehensives with academy status.
Four of St Ives' 11 schools are academies, including both secondaries, each setting their own admissions criteria. Nine schools carry a faith designation, with Church of England schools the most numerous — Holywell CofE Primary is a notable example. Eastfield Infant and Westfield Junior operate on a classic Cambridgeshire split-site model, meaning families must make separate applications for infant and junior transfer at age 7.
St Ivo Academy is the larger of the two secondaries and historically draws from a wide catchment including Needingworth, Holywell and Somersham. St Ives' rapid housing growth means some new-build areas on the town's eastern fringe may fall in different admissions areas than residents expect. Cambridgeshire publishes annual offer statistics; catchment.school's postcode tool is the most reliable way to check distances offered in recent cycles.
School demand in St Ives
Across the 11 schools in St Ives with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 86%. None are currently over capacity, but catchment distance still applies in any year a school is oversubscribed.
2 schools in St Ives have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
4 of the schools in St Ives are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Cambridgeshire, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
5 of the schools in St Ives have a current Ofsted rating, of which 4 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary Schools in St Ives (8)
Westfield Junior School
Primary · Community school
St Ives · PE27 5RG
Eastfield Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school
St Ives · PE27 5QT
Holywell CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
St Ives · PE27 4TF
St Ives Junior School
Primary · Community school
St Ives · TR26 1DN
Wheatfields Primary School
Primary · Foundation school
St Ives · PE27 3WF
Thorndown Primary School
Primary · Community school
St Ives · PE27 6SE
St Ives Infant School
Primary · Academy converter
St Ives · TR26 1DH
St Uny CofE Academy
Primary · Academy converter
St Ives · TR26 2SQ
Secondary Schools in St Ives (2)
Other Schools in St Ives (1)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in St Ives are set by Cambridgeshire and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.