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Clipstone Brook Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Community school
Brooklands Drive, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3PG · clipstonebrooklower.co.uk · 01525 376085
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2019
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 306
- 6 over 300 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 11.8%
- First language not English
- 17.6%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 45 families put the school first and 60 places were offered; 98% 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 | 45 | 0.8 | 98% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 49 | 0.8 | 96% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 57 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 46 | 36 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 59 | 50 | 0.8 | 96% |
Ofsted
Clipstone Brook Lower School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 5 November 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Mar 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 11 Mar 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2018Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective Jan 2015Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good May 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
80% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (64 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 80%
- Replies
- 64
- 22% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 72% who raised concerns
based on the 45% who had a child bullied
based on 18 parents (28%) with SEND