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Living in St Neots with children

St Neots, Cambridgeshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 33,262 people in 14,436 households; 28.2% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).

19schools in St Neots
£320ktypical semi, 12 months
69crimes a year per 1,000 people
85%gigabit broadband

Schools

19 schools: 17 state primary, 2 state secondary
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Primary: expected standard, 2025 results (DfE) · red mark: Cambridgeshire 59%ResultOfsted
1Crosshall Junior SchoolPrimary · Top 14% (26/196) · 75%School remains Good
2Offord Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 33% (63/196) · 68%Good
3Great Staughton Primary AcademyPrimary · Top 35% (67/196) · 67%Ofsted report card
4Great Paxton CofE Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 40% (78/196) · 65%School remains Good
5Bushmead Primary SchoolPrimary · Top 47% (91/196) · 63%Good
6Middlefield Primary AcademyPrimary · (107/196) · 61%Good
7The Round House Primary AcademyPrimary · (111/196) · 60%Standards maintained
8Winhills Primary AcademyPrimary · (115/196) · 59%School remains Good
Secondary: attainment 8, 2026 results (DfE) · red mark: Cambridgeshire 50.3ResultOfsted
1Longsands AcademySecondary · (21/34) · 48.2Good
2Ernulf AcademySecondary · (27/34) · 43.4Good
Every school in St Neots, with inspection, league band and the last place offered

State primary schools (17)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Crosshall Junior SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 14% (26/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Offord Primary SchoolGoodTop 33% (63/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Great Staughton Primary AcademyOfsted report cardTop 35% (67/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Great Paxton CofE Primary SchoolSchool remains GoodTop 40% (78/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Bushmead Primary SchoolGoodTop 47% (91/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Middlefield Primary AcademyGood(107/196) in Cambridgeshire—
The Round House Primary AcademyStandards maintained(111/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Winhills Primary AcademySchool remains Good(115/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Wintringham Primary AcademyGood(115/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Buckden CofE Primary SchoolGood(130/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Eynesbury CofE C Primary SchoolSchool remains Good(155/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Priory Junior SchoolSchool remains Good(162/196) in Cambridgeshire—
The Newton Community Primary SchoolGood(185/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Little Paxton Primary SchoolGood(190/196) in Cambridgeshire—
Crosshall Infant SchoolGood——
Priory Park Infant School & Pre-SchoolGood——
St Mary's Church of England Primary School St NeotsStandards maintained——

State secondary schools (2)

SchoolInspectionLeague rankLast place offered
Longsands AcademyGood(21/34) in Cambridgeshire—
Ernulf AcademyGood(27/34) in Cambridgeshire—

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)
Detached£461,000
Semi-detached£320,000
Terraced£270,000
Flat or maisonette£175,000

The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (112 detached, 119 semi-detached, 168 terraced, 72 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of St Neots. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Getting around

Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)
1railway station within 2 km: St Neots Rail Station (1.0 miles)
41bus stops within 1 km of the town centre

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.

Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 85% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 96%, on average across the 1,174 postcodes in PE19. 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 vary
69.3 a year per 1,000 peopleCrimeInside the town's outline, September 2025 to August 2026. The most common: violent crime, anti social behaviour, criminal damage arson. Source: data.police.uk, street-level crime inside the ONS built-up area outline; people from Census 2021. A town centre with shops and pubs records more crime per resident than a suburb.
Flood zone 2FloodAt the town centre, the area is in flood zone 2 for rivers and the sea on the Environment Agency's Flood Map for Planning. Surface-water risk: we don't hold that map, so it is unknown here. One point says little about a whole town, and the zones describe the area, not a building: check the address on the Environment Agency's long-term flood risk service.Source: Environment Agency, Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea), read from its open download. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.
NO₂ 8.0AirAt the town centre, an annual mean on DEFRA's 1 km map: nitrogen dioxide 8.0 µg/m³ (2024); PM2.5 7.2 µg/m³ (2024); PM10 11.7 µg/m³ (2024). A background figure, not the air beside a busy road. Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps.

Childcare

Ofsted early years register; published prices
12registered nurseries and pre-schools
£93 to £106a day, where 2 publish a day rate (the middle £100)

What Ofsted found: 3 outstanding; 9 good, or expected standard. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.04 an hour for a two-year-old.

All of them: 12 in Cambridgeshire.

Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 16 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.

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Key dates, Cambridgeshire

The next dates for families applying
Secondary applications close31 Oct 2026
Primary applications close15 Jan 2027
Secondary offer day1 Mar 2027

Application deadlines and offer days: Cambridgeshire.

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