Living in St Ives with children
St Ives, Cambridgeshire and Cornwall. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date.
Schools
10 schools: 8 state primary, 2 state secondarySt Ives on the schools map →Every school in St Ives, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (8)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Ives Junior School | Requires improvement | Top 25% (52/212) in Cornwall | — |
| Holywell CofE Primary School | Good | Top 46% (89/196) in Cambridgeshire | — |
| Thorndown Primary School | School remains Good | (106/196) in Cambridgeshire | — |
| Wheatfields Primary School | Good | (127/196) in Cambridgeshire | — |
| Westfield Junior School | School remains Good | (154/196) in Cambridgeshire | — |
| St Uny CofE Academy | Good | (196/212) in Cornwall | — |
| Eastfield Infant and Nursery School | Good | — | — |
| St Ives Infant School | Good | — | — |
State secondary schools (2)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Ivo Academy | Good | Top 48% (16/34) in Cambridgeshire | — |
| St Ives School | School remains Good | (21/31) in Cornwall | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)We don't hold Land Registry sales for St Ives yet, so its typical prices are unknown here.
Look up a home in St Ives →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 72% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 97%, on average across the 1,078 postcodes in PE27, TR26. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 2 outstanding; 4 good, or expected standard; 1 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.04 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 2 in Cornwall · 5 in Cambridgeshire.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 9 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Cambridgeshire
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Cambridgeshire · Cornwall.
Every date, and reminders →Nearby towns
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