Bedford Road Primary Academy
Primary · Bedford · MK42 8QH
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 9 December 2025 · report published 27 January 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
365 pupils · 87% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 30.1% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 33% of pupils
- SEN support
- 16.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 4.6% of pupils
- Website
- bedfordroad-primary.org
- URN
- 150474
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place41 places offered · 41 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
59 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
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)
88% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 12% moved to another state school
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, academy 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
- 9 December 2025: Needs attention
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.