Graded inspection · Apr 2025 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 | 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 entry199 applications · 177 places offered · 173 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.1; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8
- 2025 3.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.8; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6
- 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 | 177 | 199 | 1.1 | 173 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 2 | 2.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 4 | 7 | 1.8 | 4 | 1.00 |
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.) | 78 | 41.0 | 30% | 56% | – |
| 2024/25 | 86 | 42.7 | 36% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 92 | 43.5 | 40% | 65% | −0.23 |
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- Henlow Church of England AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.1applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good202345.7Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Central BedfordshireStandards maintained202545.8Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Central BedfordshireGood202444.6Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade2025
- 6.4 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 6.7 km · Hertfordshire20263.0applications per place 37.5Attainment 8
- 7.4 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place
- 7.6 km · HertfordshireGood20233.0applications per place 42.0Attainment 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
- 138027 · 823/4503
- Trust
- Poppy Hill Church of England Multi Academy Trust
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 599 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- Henlow VC Middle School (URN 109695)
- Address
- Church Road, Henlow, SG16 6AN
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources