Graded inspection · Nov 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Central Bedfordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry182 applications · 85 places offered · 59 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.1; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2022 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2021 3.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2019 2.7; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2018 2.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2017 1.7; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2016 7.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2015 1.6; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2014 1.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- This school
- Central Bedfordshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 85 | 182 | 2.1 | 59 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Sep 2024 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2022 | 4 | 5 | 1.3 | 3 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2021 | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 2 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Sep 2019 | 3 | 8 | 2.7 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 5 | 12 | 2.4 | 5 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 7 | 12 | 1.7 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Sep 2015 | 7 | 11 | 1.6 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 128 | 180 | 1.4 | 117 | 0.91 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 131 | 35.7 | 28% | 45% | – |
| 2024/25 | 131 | 36.9 | 25% | 56% | – |
| 2023/24 | 140 | 36.1 | 29% | 53% | −0.88 |
| 2022/23 | 119 | 32.8 | 25% | 45% | −1.14 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- All Saints Academy DunstableThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 35.7Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good202342.0Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · LutonRemains Good20232.0applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Central Bedfordshire20261.7applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · LutonStandards maintained20252.0applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 4.3 km · LutonOutstanding20231.9applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 4.8 km · LutonGood20232.0applications per place 41.7Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135946 · 823/6905
- Trust
- All Saints Academy Dunstable
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 740 pupils · 520 on roll
- Free school meals
- 36.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2009
- Replaced
- The Northfields Technology College (URN 109648)
- Address
- Houghton Road, Dunstable, LU5 5AB
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources