Graded inspection · Jul 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
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 | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 2 July 2024Graded inspection: Good
- 5 May 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry- 2025 1.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6
- 2024 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2023 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6
- 2022 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2021 1.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2020 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2019 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2018 1.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2017 1.5; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2016 1.4; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2015 1.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.3
- 2014 1.3; 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 2025 | 379 | 543 | 1.4 | 406 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2024 | 386 | 483 | 1.3 | 382 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2023 | 381 | 480 | 1.3 | 385 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2022 | 385 | 489 | 1.3 | 403 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2021 | 388 | 548 | 1.4 | 417 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2020 | 369 | 468 | 1.3 | 365 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2019 | 384 | 509 | 1.3 | 386 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2018 | 388 | 539 | 1.4 | 427 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2017 | 375 | 544 | 1.5 | 435 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2016 | 373 | 521 | 1.4 | 399 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2015 | 345 | 452 | 1.3 | 345 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 360 | 467 | 1.3 | 366 | 1.02 |
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.) | 391 | 45.3 | 46% | 65% | – |
| 2024/25 | 393 | 46.6 | 45% | 69% | – |
| 2023/24 | 392 | 45.3 | 44% | 68% | +0.08 |
| 2022/23 | 393 | 47.5 | 51% | 72% | +0.09 |
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
- Redborne Upper School and Community CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGood202445.3Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good2023
- 1.7 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good2023
- 5.6 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade2024
- 5.8 km · Central BedfordshireGood202346.1Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · Bedford20261.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 8.0 km · Central BedfordshireGood2024
- 8.2 km · Central BedfordshireGood2023
- 9.0 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 44.8Attainment 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
- 136559 · 823/4003
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,418 pupils · 1,657 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Redborne Upper School and Community College (URN 109643)
- Address
- Flitwick Road, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2NU
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources