United Kingdom / Regions / Bedford
Bedford
East of England, England · population ~175k · 74 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 55 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Bedford
74 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (55 of 74 here), 88.4% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 4 schools (5.4% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 74 schools.
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Sharnbrook Academy | Secondary | 1,685 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bedford Academy | Secondary | 1,375 | Good | 21/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Biddenham International School and Sports College | Secondary | 1,357 | Not graded | 27/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Mark Rutherford School | Secondary | 1,180 | Requires Improvement | 11/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Goldington Academy | Secondary | 942 | Good | 01/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wixams Academy | Secondary | 933 | Requires Improvement | 05/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Lincroft Academy | Secondary | 931 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas More Catholic School | Secondary | 929 | Good | 04/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King's Oak Primary School | Primary | 868 | Good | 11/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Wootton Upper School | Secondary | 867 | Good· | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kempston Academy | Secondary | 824 | Not graded | 16/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Castle Newnham School | Secondary | 750 | Good· | 24/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Great Denham Primary School | Primary | 677 | Outstanding | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Wootton Primary School | Primary | 626 | Good· | 27/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Castle Newnham School | Primary | 622 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Goldington Green Academy | Primary | 581 | Not graded | 07/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Marston Vale Middle School | Secondary | 571 | Not graded | 08/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Daubeney Academy | Secondary | 561 | Not graded | 01/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Wixams Tree Primary Academy | Primary | 529 | Good | 17/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bedford Free School | Secondary | 525 | Outstanding | 24/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.