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Leedon Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–9 · Community school
Highfield Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3LZ · leedonlowerschool.co.uk · 01525 374713
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Apr 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Demand for places
- 0.6
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 368
- 8 over 360 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 23.5%
- First language not English
- 13%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 38 families put the school first and 60 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 60 | 38 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 46 | 31 | 0.7 | 97% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 54 | 40 | 0.7 | 98% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 55 | 44 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 65 | 53 | 0.8 | 98% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Leedon Lower School on 28 April 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement
- Achievement: Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
- Personal development and well-being: Needs attention
- Early years: Needs attention
- Leadership and governance: Needs attention
- Inspected
- 28 Apr 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Urgent improvement |
| Achievement | Urgent improvement |
| Attendance and behaviour | Needs attention |
| Personal development and well-being | Needs attention |
| Early years | Needs attention |
| Leadership and governance | Needs attention |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Jun 2023
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2023Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2019Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Jul 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Nov 2012Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
91% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (99 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 91%
- Replies
- 99
- 23% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 23% who had a child bullied
based on 13 parents (13%) with SEND