How far do you need to live from a school in Peterborough to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 17 Peterborough schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 1.0 miles away; the tightest was Hampton Lakes Primary School at 0.43 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Peterborough schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Peterborough schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Peterborough publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 17 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

17schools with a published figure

1.0 mithe middle school's distance

8filled within a mile

The tightest is Hampton Lakes Primary School at 0.43 miles in 2026/27; the most far-reaching, St Botolph's Church of England Primary School, admitted from 4.78 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Hampton Lakes Primary School Peterborough	Good	0.43 mi	2026/27	93%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	0.51 mi	2026/27	100%
Nene Valley Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	0.58 mi	2026/27	99%
Southfields Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	0.78 mi	2026/27	86%
Newark Hill Academy Peterborough	Good	0.85 mi	2026/27	97%
All Saints' CofE (Aided) Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	0.87 mi	2026/27	100%
Heritage Park Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	1.0 mi	2026/27	96%
Fulbridge Academy Peterborough	Outstanding	1.02 mi	2026/27	104%
Hampton Hargate Primary School Peterborough	No current grade	1.1 mi	2026/27	100%
St Botolph's Church of England Primary School Peterborough	Good	4.78 mi	2026/27	82%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
St John Fisher Catholic High School Peterborough	No current grade	0.83 mi	2026/27	not published
Manor Drive Secondary Academy Peterborough	No current grade	0.97 mi	2026/27	82%
Hampton Gardens Secondary School Peterborough	Good	1.07 mi	2026/27	87%
Arthur Mellows Village College Peterborough	No current grade	2.4 mi	2026/27	97%
Ormiston Bushfield Academy Peterborough	No current grade	2.4 mi	2026/27	97%
Nene Park Academy Peterborough	No current grade	2.77 mi	2026/27	134%
Hampton College Peterborough	Good	3.85 mi	2026/27	94%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Peterborough measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Peterborough. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.