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Linslade Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Community school
Leopold Road, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2QU · linsladelower.co.uk · 01525 372085
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Nov 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Demand for places
- 1.6
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 181
- 80% of 225 places
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 4.1%
- First language not English
- 5%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 48 families put the school first and 30 places were offered; 63% 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 | 30 | 48 | 1.6▲ | 63% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 37 | 1.2▲ | 78% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 29 | 46 | 1.6▲ | 63% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 30 | 38 | 1.3▲ | 79% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 39 | 1.3▲ | 74% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Linslade Lower School on 25 November 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 25 Nov 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Jan 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2022Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Jan 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
99% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (109 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 99%
- Positive
- 98%
- Replies
- 109
- 63% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on 8 parents (7%) whose child was bullied
based on 13 parents (12%) with SEND