The School Record

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

Biggleswade Academy

URN 137947 · Primary · Academy converter · Central Bedfordshire

Mead End, Biggleswade, SG18 8JU

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, 69 families named Biggleswade Academy as their first preference, and the school made 109 offers.

That is 0.63 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 1% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 1% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.93 in 2021–2022 and 0.72 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 69 150 109 0.63
2024 75 150 92 0.82
2023 76 165 83 0.92
2022 74 154 79 0.94
2021 83 147 90 0.92
2020 82 146 85 0.96
2019 58 115 58 1.00
2018 78 128 79 0.99
2017 76 129 76 1.00
2016 55 100 62 0.89
2015 57 91 60 0.95
2014 71 108 73 0.97

“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.

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), 1 May 2024

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Requires improvement

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

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 57.0% 1.0% 107.0 106.0
2023/24 72.0% 3.0% 105.0 106.0
2022/23 67.0% 6.0% 106.0 106.0

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 39.2 35.2 3.0 1.0 10.2%
2023/24 48.6 39.4 7.4 1.8 18.9%
2022/23 47.5 38.3 5.0 4.2 19.4%
2021/22 43.0 34.4 4.0 4.6 20.0%
2020/21 44.9 40.4 0.8 3.6 9.8%
2019/20 43.9 35.5 2.0 6.4 19.1%

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 Biggleswade Academy.

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.