Ridgmont Lower School
Primary · Bedford · MK43 0TS
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 25 November 2025 · report published 29 January 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
11 pupils · 12% of 90 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 3–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 22.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 66.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 11.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.ridgmont-lower.org.uk/
- URN
- 109476
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.50 first-choice applications per place2 places offered · 1 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 November 2025: Expected standard
- 23 March 2022: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next
- 21 February 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.