Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary 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 | |||
| Early years 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 entry42 applications · 27 places offered · 15 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.6; Central Bedfordshire median median 2.1
- 2025 2.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2024 2.1; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2023 2.3; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 2.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2021 1.8; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 2.0; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 2.5; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.9; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 2.2; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.1; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 2.6; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2014 1.9; Central Bedfordshire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Central Bedfordshire median
Dashed bars: as St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School (URN 109618), the previous school.
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 | 27 | 42 | 1.6 | 15 | 0.56 |
| Sep 2025 * | 25 | 57 | 2.3 | 25 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 * | 17 | 35 | 2.1 | 13 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2023 * | 19 | 44 | 2.3 | 19 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 25 | 49 | 2.0 | 25 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 20 | 36 | 1.8 | 20 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 25 | 49 | 2.0 | 27 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2019 * | 15 | 38 | 2.5 | 14 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 * | 22 | 42 | 1.9 | 22 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 22 | 48 | 2.2 | 23 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2016 * | 22 | 46 | 2.1 | 24 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2015 * | 16 | 42 | 2.6 | 13 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2014 * | 17 | 32 | 1.9 | 17 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Leonards CE AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place
- 1.3 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good20234.3applications per place
- 1.5 km · Central BedfordshireGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place
- 2.7 km · Central Bedfordshire20262.3applications per place
- 2.7 km · BuckinghamshireRequires improvement20231.4applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good20242.8applications per place
- 3.2 km · Central BedfordshireGood20242.4applications per place
- 3.3 km · Central BedfordshireRemains Good20232.1applications per place
- 3.4 km · Central BedfordshireStandards maintained20252.7applications per place
- 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
- 151804 · 823/3310
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 125 pupils · 117 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Replaced
- St Leonards, Heath and Reach, VA Lower School (URN 109618)
- Address
- Thrift Road, Heath and Reach, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 0AX
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources