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Dovery Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Sponsored academy
Heath Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 3AG · doveryacademy.org · 01525 377233
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected May 2025
- Demand for places
- 1.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 191
- 41 over 150 places · 127%
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 5.7%
- First language not English
- 5.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 53 families put the school first and 29 places were offered; 55% 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 | 29 | 53 | 1.8▲ | 55% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 27 | 0.9 | 93% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 29 | 27 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 26 | 0.9 | 96% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Dovery Academy on 13 May 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 13 May 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Oct 2021
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 109516), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2021Inadequate
Quality of education Inadequate Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109516)
Before September 2019
Mar 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109516)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (55 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 55
- 33% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 55% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied