United Kingdom / Regions / Central Bedfordshire
Central Bedfordshire
East of England, England · population ~294k · 128 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 103 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Central Bedfordshire
128 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 (103 of 128 here), 96% 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 5 schools (3.9% 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 128 schools.
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Samuel Whitbread Academy | Secondary | 1,660 | Good· | 03/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Redborne Upper School and Community College | Secondary | 1,592 | Good | 02/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Vandyke Upper School | Secondary | 1,507 | Good· | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandy Secondary School | Secondary | 1,214 | Not graded | 24/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Harlington Upper School | Secondary | 1,198 | Good | 03/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Queensbury Academy | Secondary | 1,154 | Good· | 22/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Manshead Church of England Academy | Secondary | 1,146 | Good | 15/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Etonbury Academy | Secondary | 1,133 | Good | 24/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Cedars Upper School | Secondary | 1,055 | Good | 19/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Stratton School | Secondary | 986 | Not graded | 23/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Robert Bloomfield Academy | Secondary | 974 | Not graded | 11/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School | Primary | 894 | Good· | 19/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Biggleswade Academy | Primary | 875 | Good | 01/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Pix Brook Academy | Secondary | 865 | Good | 24/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Priory Academy | Secondary | 808 | Good· | 20/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Alameda Middle School | Secondary | 720 | Good· | 11/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Holywell School | Secondary | 711 | Good· | 12/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Arnold Academy | Secondary | 699 | Good | 23/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Greenleas School | Primary | 680 | Good | 14/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Woodland Middle School Academy | Secondary | 670 | Good· | 17/05/2023 | 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.