Graded inspection · Oct 2023 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 | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry194 applications · 108 places offered · 92 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.8; Bedford median median 1.8
- 2025 1.4; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2024 1.4; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2023 1.4; Bedford median median 1.4
- 2022 1.4; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2021 1.5; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2020 1.5; Bedford median median 1.9
- 2019 1.4; Bedford median median 1.7
- 2018 1.5; Bedford median median 1.6
- 2017 1.4; Bedford median median 1.6
- 2016 2.1; Bedford median median 1.5
- 2015 1.7; Bedford median median 1.3
- 2014 1.5; Bedford median median 1.5
- 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 | 108 | 194 | 1.8 | 92 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2025 | 138 | 194 | 1.4 | 89 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2024 | 142 | 191 | 1.4 | 99 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2023 | 129 | 186 | 1.4 | 105 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2022 | 156 | 210 | 1.4 | 132 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2021 | 123 | 184 | 1.5 | 103 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2020 | 150 | 229 | 1.5 | 138 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2019 | 160 | 223 | 1.4 | 149 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 152 | 229 | 1.5 | 161 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2017 | 128 | 184 | 1.4 | 138 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2016 | 136 | 289 | 2.1 | 203 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2015 | 197 | 339 | 1.7 | 240 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2014 | 172 | 255 | 1.5 | 170 | 0.99 |
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.) | 153 | 41.0 | 37% | 50% | – |
| 2024/25 | 158 | 47.0 | 46% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 149 | 44.6 | 45% | 67% | +0.31 |
| 2022/23 | 145 | 46.9 | 47% | 67% | +0.18 |
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
- St Thomas More Catholic SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20231.8applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Bedford20252.3applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Bedford20263.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · Bedford2026
- 3.3 km · BedfordStandards maintained20254.0applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · BedfordStandards maintained20242.5applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · BedfordGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 50.4Attainment 8
- 4.9 km · BedfordGood20232.5applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 5.5 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
- 139517 · 822/4605
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,040 pupils · 893 on roll
- Free school meals
- 22.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2013
- Replaced
- St Thomas More Catholic School (URN 109698)
- Address
- Tyne Crescent, Bedford, MK41 7UL
- Local authority
- Bedford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources