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Fairfield Park Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Community school
Dickens Boulevard, Fairfield Park SG5 4FD · fairfield.beds.sch.uk · 01462 830000
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 479
- 93% of 514 places
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 7.6%
- First language not English
- 2.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 74 families put the school first and 85 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 | 85 | 74 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 89 | 98 | 1.1▲ | 89% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 86 | 78 | 0.9 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 72 | 70 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 90 | 94 | 1▲ | 95% |
Ofsted
Fairfield Park Lower School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 16 July 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 16 Jul 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, May 2012
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
May 2012Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding May 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (143 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 143
- 29% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 74% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied
based on 19 parents (13%) with SEND