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Hockliffe Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–9 · Academy
Woburn Road, Hockliffe, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9LL · hockliffelowerschool.co.uk · 01525 210330
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2025
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 67
- 89% of 75 places
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 4.5%
- First language not English
- 13.4%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 13 families put the school first and 15 places were offered; 92% 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 | 15 | 13 | 0.9 | 92% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 15 | 14 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 13 | 11 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 15 | 14 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 12 | 11 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Hockliffe Lower School on 11 March 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 11 Mar 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, May 2010
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 109529), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
May 2010Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109529)
Jan 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109529)
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (35 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 35
- 54% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 86% who raised concerns
based on the 46% who had a child bullied