Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bedford
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry280 applications · 164 places offered · 154 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Bedford median median 1.8
- 2025 1.5; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2024 1.5; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2023 1.4; Bedford median median 1.4
- 2022 1.4; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2021 1.6; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2020 1.5; Bedford median median 1.9
- 2019 1.3; Bedford median median 1.7
- This school
- Bedford 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 | 164 | 280 | 1.7 | 154 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2025 | 181 | 272 | 1.5 | 159 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2024 | 184 | 278 | 1.5 | 163 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2023 | 187 | 266 | 1.4 | 166 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 206 | 280 | 1.4 | 186 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 | 201 | 327 | 1.6 | 209 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2020 | 207 | 308 | 1.5 | 205 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 205 | 273 | 1.3 | 176 | 0.86 |
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.) | 194 | 50.4 | 56% | 78% | – |
| 2024/25 | 189 | 45.0 | 48% | 73% | – |
| 2023/24 | 204 | 51.4 | 59% | 81% | +0.40 |
| 2022/23 | 189 | 47.5 | 49% | 73% | +0.31 |
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
- Lincroft AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 3.9 km · BedfordStandards maintained20242.5applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · BedfordGood20231.8applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · BedfordStandards maintained20254.0applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · Bedford2026
- 5.9 km · Bedford20263.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · Bedford20252.3applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 6.5 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 46.1Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136471 · 822/5404
- Trust
- Meridian Trust
- Capacity
- 1,000 pupils · 923 on roll
- Free school meals
- 14.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 February 2011
- Replaced
- Lincroft Middle School (URN 109708)
- Address
- Station Road, Oakley, Bedford, MK43 7RE
- Local authority
- Bedford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources