Graded inspection · Jul 2025 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
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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 entry210 applications · 111 places offered · 95 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Bedford median median 1.8
- 2025 1.4; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2024 1.4; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2023 1.2; Bedford median median 1.4
- 2022 1.5; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2021 1.0; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2020 1.1; Bedford median median 1.9
- 2019 1.2; 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 | 111 | 210 | 1.9 | 95 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2025 | 118 | 167 | 1.4 | 107 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2024 | 79 | 111 | 1.4 | 67 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2023 | 100 | 123 | 1.2 | 68 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2022 | 80 | 121 | 1.5 | 56 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2021 | 120 | 116 | 1.0 | 54 | 0.45 |
| Sep 2020 | 107 | 115 | 1.1 | 59 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2019 | 73 | 90 | 1.2 | 47 | 0.64 |
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.) | 118 | 46.1 | 52% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 109 | 38.5 | 29% | 55% | – |
| 2023/24 | 79 | 35.6 | 33% | 52% | +0.02 |
| 2022/23 | 88 | 36.1 | 31% | 51% | −1.06 |
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
- Daubeney AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · BedfordStandards maintained20241.8applications per place 38.4Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · BedfordGood20232.5applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · BedfordStandards maintained20254.0applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · BedfordStandards maintained20242.5applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Bedford20261.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Bedford2026
- 4.3 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 44.8Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · Bedford20263.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 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
- 138067 · 822/4098
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 583 pupils · 576 on roll
- Free school meals
- 28.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- Daubeney Middle School (URN 109679)
- Address
- Orchard Street, Kempston, Bedford, MK42 7PS
- Local authority
- Bedford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources