Primary
Townley Primary School
Crown Road, Christchurch, Wisbech, PE14 9NA
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 2 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 102 of 86 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 15.0
- Pupils per adult
- 6.9
- Pupils
- 103
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2022
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
March 2018
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
SATs results
38%
15 points below the Wisbech average (53% across 24 schools)
103.0
0.9 below the Wisbech average (103.9 across 24 schools)
17th of 24 by our score, among the primary schools in Wisbech we can score - 26 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 99 |
| Average reading score | 103 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 38% |
| Working at a higher standard | 6% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 31% |
| 23/24 | 43% |
| 24/25 | 38% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 105.0 |
| 23/24 | 103.0 |
| 24/25 | 103.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 99.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 99.0 |
Crown Road, Christchurch, Wisbech, PE14 9NA
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Cambridgeshire admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Maria-Anne Higgins
- Address
- Crown Road, Christchurch, Wisbech, PE14 9NA
- Telephone
- 01354638229