Graded inspection · May 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 entry322 applications · 184 places offered · 209 named it first
- 2026 1.8; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8
- 2025 3.8; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6
- 2024 1.8; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.4
- 2023 2.1; 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 | 184 | 322 | 1.8 | 209 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2025 | 8 | 30 | 3.8 | 12 | 1.50 |
| Sep 2024 | 19 | 35 | 1.8 | 20 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2023 | 7 | 15 | 2.1 | 7 | 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.) | 86 | 48.7 | 57% | 76% | – |
| 2024/25 | 70 | 46.1 | 56% | 77% | – |
| 2023/24 | 52 | 32.7 | 27% | 44% | −0.74 |
| 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
- Houstone SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · LutonRemains Good20232.0applications per place 42.8Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · LutonGood20232.0applications per place 41.7Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20242.1applications per place 35.7Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · LutonStandards maintained20252.0applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · LutonOutstanding20231.9applications per place 47.2Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good202342.0Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · LutonSpecial measures 20261.6applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 41.4Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 149107 · 823/4013
- Trust
- Advantage Schools
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 765 on roll
- Free school meals
- 28.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Address
- Parkside Drive, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, LU5 5PX
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources