All Saints Academy Dunstable

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire·LU5 5AB
Composite score
46.1
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#2,858
National rank
#324
In East of England
#15
In Central Bedfordshire
Top 90%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
36.9
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
25%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
56%
% EBacc grade 5+
3%
EBacc average points score
3.32

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
59 first choices, 85 places
First choices per place
0.69
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
182
any preference, for 85 places
Applications from another council area
2%

Every child who put All Saints Academy Dunstable 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
564
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
34.7%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
19.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
25.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,007
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
88%
119 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
81%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
5%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

All Saints Academy Dunstable is a secondary school serving Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 564 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 36.9, below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 0.8 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

25% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 56% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. All Saints Academy Dunstable was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 59 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.4%. There are about 21.7 pupils per teacher. All Saints Academy Dunstable 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.

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