St Bede's Inter-Church School

Term dates

Academies can set their own term dates. Many follow Cambridgeshire council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

See Cambridgeshire's full dates

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

How places are given: as a Church of England/Roman Catholic school, it may give priority to children of that faith, then usually by distance. Check its admissions policy.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 288 families put this school as their first choice, and 177 places were offered. 173 of the families who put it first got a place (60%). More families put it first than there were places.

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

Ofsted inspection

Latest graded inspection, 4 June 2024. Overall: Outstanding

Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–16

Pupils

943 (capacity 903)

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

Church of England/Roman Catholic

Diocese

Diocese of East Anglia

Academy trust

ST BEDE'S INTER CHURCH SCHOOL

Phone

01223568816

Address

Birdwood Road, Cambridge, CB1 3TD

Website

st-bedes.org.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports