The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Priory Primary School

URN 109436 · Primary · Foundation school · Bedford

Greyfriars, Bedford, MK40 1JD

Figures current as of 4 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 44 families named Priory Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 26 offers.

That is 1.69 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 99% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 99% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.57 in 2021–2022 and 1.73 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 44 92 26 1.69
2024 46 105 26 1.77
2023 44 92 26 1.69
2022 36 86 26 1.38
2021 49 81 28 1.75
2020 39 82 27 1.44
2019 35 84 26 1.35
2018 31 78 28 1.11
2017 37 90 28 1.32
2016 44 94 28 1.57
2015 37 88 28 1.32
2014 30 76 27 1.11

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 5 November 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 50.0% 0.0% 103.0 101.0
2023/24 46.0% 4.0% 103.0 103.0
2022/23 35.0% 0.0% 101.0 100.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 9.0 8.0 0.0 1.0 11.1%
2023/24 9.0 8.0 0.0 1.0 11.1%
2022/23 10.0 8.0 2.0 0.0 20.0%
2021/22 11.0 10.0 0.0 1.0 9.1%
2020/21 10.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 7.6 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Priory Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.