Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Luton
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 17 June 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 9 May 2024Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving)
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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 entry113 applications · 88 places offered · 78 named it first
- 2026 1.3; Luton median median 2.0
- 2025 1.4; Luton median median 1.9
- 2024 1.5; Luton median median 2.0
- 2023 1.3; Luton median median 2.0
- 2022 1.5; Luton median median 2.1
- 2021 1.5; Luton median median 1.9
- 2020 1.5; Luton median median 2.1
- 2019 1.6; Luton median median 2.0
- 2018 1.6; Luton median median 2.0
- 2017 1.7; Luton median median 2.0
- 2016 1.9; Luton median median 2.3
- 2015 1.8; Luton median median 2.1
- 2014 1.6; Luton median median 2.3
- This school
- Luton median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 88 | 113 | 1.3 | 78 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2025 | 68 | 95 | 1.4 | 61 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2024 | 72 | 108 | 1.5 | 67 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 | 71 | 95 | 1.3 | 69 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 73 | 106 | 1.5 | 69 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2021 | 76 | 111 | 1.5 | 72 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2020 | 86 | 127 | 1.5 | 70 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2019 | 90 | 146 | 1.6 | 80 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2018 | 88 | 142 | 1.6 | 72 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2017 | 89 | 153 | 1.7 | 86 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 | 84 | 160 | 1.9 | 70 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2015 | 86 | 151 | 1.8 | 70 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2014 | 87 | 141 | 1.6 | 66 | 0.76 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Whipperley Infant AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place
- 0.5 km · Luton20261.7applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · LutonOutstanding202464%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · LutonGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · LutonRemains Good20232.5applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · LutonOutstanding202387%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · LutonRemains Good20232.0applications per place
- 1.2 km · Luton20262.3applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 1.5 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20241.1applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 139219 · 821/2251
- Trust
- Whipperley Academy Trust
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 241 on roll
- Free school meals
- 29.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2013
- Replaced
- Whipperley Infant School (URN 109559)
- Address
- Whipperley Ring, Farley Hill, Luton, LU1 5QY
- Local authority
- Luton
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources