Flitwick Lower School

Community school·First school Central Bedfordshire·MK45 1LU

School type

First school

Ages 2–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Flitwick Lower School is a first school for pupils aged 2–9. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every first school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

56 first choices, 56 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

106

any preference, for 56 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020220.9620230.9820240.9720251.002026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Flitwick Lower School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range: 2–9
Pupils on roll: 318
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

8.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

0.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

7.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

8.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

24.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,396

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Woodland Middle School Academy Bedford · 0.3 mi 26.5 Alameda Middle School Bedford · 1.9 mi 36.6 Parkfields Middle School Dunstable · 3.7 mi 36.0 Arnold Academy Bedford · 4.2 mi 47.2 Thornhill Primary School Dunstable · 5.8 mi 55.9 Lime Tree Primary Academy · 6.2 mi 49.9 Tithe Farm Primary School Dunstable · 6.3 mi 26.6 Fulbrook School Milton Keynes · 6.3 mi 28.3

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Flitwick Lower School at a glance

Located in Central Bedfordshire, Flitwick Lower School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 318 pupils aged 2 to 9.

Flitwick Lower School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 56 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 4.6%. There are about 24.6 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Flitwick Lower School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.