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Fee-paying schools in CB3, Cambridge

14 within 3 miles of the district's centre, nearest first. Age ranges are each school's own statutory range, which is what decides whether it takes a given year group.

School	Distance	Ages	Takes
St John's College School	0.4 mi	4 to 13	Primary
King's College School	0.8 mi	4 to 14	All-through Selective
The Leys School	1.5 mi	11 to 19	Secondary Selective
Cardiff Sixth Form College, Cambridge	1.5 mi	14 to 19	Secondary Selective
Cambridge Arts and Sciences (CATS and CSVPA)	1.6 mi	13 to 24	Secondary
Heritage School	1.6 mi	4 to 16	All-through Christian
The Stephen Perse Foundation	1.6 mi	2 to 21	All-through Selective
Mander Portman Woodward	1.6 mi	14 to 20	Secondary
Sancton Wood School	1.7 mi	1 to 16	All-through
St Mary's School	1.7 mi	3 to 19	All-through Girls Selective Roman Catholic
St. Andrew's College Cambridge	1.9 mi	15 to 22	Secondary
St Faith's School	2.0 mi	3 to 13	Primary Christian/Methodist
Abbey College Cambridge	2.4 mi	12 to 21	Secondary
The Perse School	2.8 mi	3 to 18	All-through

None of these carries an Ofsted grade, and that is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, not Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed. A missing rating here means we cannot see one, never that the school was judged poorly. Fees are not published as open data either, so they are not shown.

The state schools alongside them

The same area holds 19 state primary and 8 state secondary schools, and those do carry Ofsted ratings and exam results. See the full school breakdown for CB3 →

Checking a specific address

Distance from a school is measured to a front door, not to a district's centre. Put a postcode in and the report works out the real distance to each school, alongside flood risk, sold prices, crime and the rest.

Common questions

How many private schools are there in CB3?

14 fee-paying schools within 3 miles of central CB3, Cambridge, from the Department for Education's register. Each one's age range, whether it selects and how full it is are listed on this page.

Do private schools in CB3 have Ofsted ratings?

No, and a blank rating is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed, so no rating exists for us to show.

Are private schools in CB3 selective?

5 of the 14 select on ability at entry, according to their admissions policy on the register. The rest do not, though most fee-paying schools still assess applicants in some way.

Are there single-sex private schools in CB3?

1 of the 14 take boys only or girls only. The rest are mixed.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools. Read how every figure here is sourced on the methodology page. If something looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.