United Kingdom / Regions / Luton
Luton
East of England, England · population ~214k · 69 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
State-funded schools in Luton
69 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 (59 of 69 here), 94.9% 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.
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 69 schools.
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Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College | Secondary | 1,641 | Good· | 22/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Chalk Hills Academy | Secondary | 1,614 | Good· | 01/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Stockwood Park Academy | Secondary | 1,471 | Not graded | 03/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Icknield High School | Secondary | 1,446 | Good | 14/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Elizabeth School | Secondary | 1,264 | Good | 13/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Challney High School for Boys | Secondary | 1,201 | Outstanding | 07/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Putteridge High School | Secondary | 1,192 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Chiltern Academy | Secondary | 1,191 | Good | 02/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Denbigh High School | Secondary | 1,123 | Outstanding | 05/12/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Stopsley High School | Secondary | 1,074 | Good | 13/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Challney High School for Girls | Secondary | 1,046 | Outstanding | 26/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Downside Primary School | Primary | 1,031 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Lealands High School | Secondary | 1,026 | Good | 04/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lea Manor High School | Secondary | 994 | Inadequate | 29/06/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Beech Hill Community Primary School | Primary | 904 | Good | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
St Matthew's Primary School | Primary | 898 | Good | 20/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Beechwood Primary School | Primary | 871 | Good | 12/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
River Bank Primary School | Primary | 769 | Good | 22/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tennyson Road Primary School | Primary | 737 | Outstanding | 04/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Bushmead Primary & Nursery School | Primary | 703 | Good | 24/05/2023 | 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.