Cambridgeshire School Catchment Areas

Cambridgeshire publishes its school admissions policy annually. With 210 primary and 33 secondary schools to allocate, the council uses a ranked oversubscription tiebreaker — usually looked-after children, then siblings, then catchment distance.

School density is highest in Cambridge and Huntingdon — parents in rural parts of Cambridgeshire should check the exact distance-offered figure from the previous year before banking on proximity alone.

Around 23% of schools in Cambridgeshire have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.

The catchment boundary for any given school is defined in the council's annual admissions booklet — we link to that search for every Cambridgeshire school below.