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Dunstable Icknield Lower School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–9 · Academy
Burr Street, Dunstable LU6 3AG · dunstableicknield.co.uk · 01582 663709
Overview
- Ofsted
- Requires improvement
- 2019 framework · inspected Nov 2023
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 295
- 87% of 340 places
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 16.7%
- First language not English
- 52.2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 33 families put the school first and 38 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 | 38 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 32 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 56 | 0.9 | 95% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 61 | 62 | 1▲ | 76% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 52 | 0.9 | 92% |
Ofsted
Dunstable Icknield Lower School was judged Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 14 November 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Requires improvement
- Inspected
- 14 Nov 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109444)
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Requires improvement |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, May 2011
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 109444), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
May 2011Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 109444)
Nov 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 109444)