St. Augustine's Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire·LU5 4AS
Composite score
20.8
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National rank
#1636
In East of England
#46
In Central Bedfordshire
Top 97%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
32%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
95.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
27 first choices, 26 places
First choices per place
1.04
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
49
any preference, for 26 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.16
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9120220.7420230.9320240.8820251.042026

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 St. Augustine's Academy. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
176
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.8%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
27.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.3%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
28.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,761
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St. Augustine's Academy at a glance

Located in Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire, St. Augustine's Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 176 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 32% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That is down 22.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 97 in reading and 95 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Competition for places is real here - 96% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (27 first choices for 26 places). Overall pupil absence was 7.9%. There are about 20.5 pupils per teacher. St. Augustine's Academy 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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