Southill Lower School

Community school·First school Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire·SG18 9JA

School type

First school

Ages 3–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Southill Lower School is a first school for pupils aged 3–9. 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

88%

16 first choices, 15 places

First choices per place

1.07

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 15 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.20

00.511.5

1 per place

0.7520220.9220230.7920241.2720251.072026

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

Central Bedfordshire does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Southill Lower School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 18/11/2025 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Strong standard

Leadership and governance

Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching

Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour

Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Strong standard

Inclusion

Strong standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 3–9
Pupils on roll: 75
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

6.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

2.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

6.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.8%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

14.0%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,063

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Robert Bloomfield Academy Shefford · 2.1 mi 30.8 Clifton All Saints Academy Near Shefford · 2.2 mi 59.8 Langford Village Academy Biggleswade · 2.3 mi 40.3 Raynsford Church of England Academy Henlow · 2.9 mi 64.3 Biggleswade Academy Biggleswade · 3.2 mi 38.2 Derwent Primary School Henlow · 3.4 mi 57.7 Meppershall Church of England Academy Shefford · 3.7 mi 19.5 Edward Peake CofE VC School Biggleswade · 3.8 mi 2.6

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

About Southill Lower School

Southill Lower School is a primary school in Biggleswade, Central Bedfordshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 75 pupils aged 3 to 9 attend the school.

Southill Lower School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 16 first choices for 15 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 18.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 7% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Southill 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.