School profile
Riverside Meadows Academy
Almond Road, St. Neots, PE19 1DZ
Overview
Riverside Meadows Academy is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in St. Neots, East of England, for pupils aged 11–18. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 11–18
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 120
- Pupils on roll
- 120
- URN
- 142932
Admissions
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
- Academy trust or group
- HORIZONS EDUCATION TRUST
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Secondary
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 score | 6 |
| EBacc average point score | 0.47 |
| Entering the EBacc | 0% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & maths | 3.7% |
| Grade 5 or above in English & maths | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 24 June 2025 · Published 21 July 2025
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Serious weaknesses. The official report explains what this means and what happens next.
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Schools with Serious Weaknesses Visit 1
Inspected 10 February 2026 · Published 19 April 2026
Outcome: Leaders and governors/trustees are taking effective action to improve the school but continued work is needed to remove the serious weaknesses designation
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Almond Road, St. Neots, PE19 1DZ
- Local authority
- Cambridgeshire
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