Hockliffe Lower School

Academy converter·First school Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire·LU7 9LL

School type

First school

Ages 4–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Hockliffe Lower School is a first school for pupils aged 4–9. 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

92%

13 first choices, 15 places

First choices per place

0.87

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 15 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.07

00.511.5

1 per place

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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 Hockliffe 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

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 4–9
Pupils on roll: 65
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

3.1%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

10.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

4.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£8,785

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Parkfields Middle School Dunstable · 2.5 mi 36.0 Brooklands Middle School Leighton Buzzard · 2.8 mi 35.9 Tithe Farm Primary School Dunstable · 3.1 mi 26.6 Houghton Regis Primary School Dunstable · 3.2 mi 25.7 Thomas Whitehead Church of England Academy Dunstable · 3.3 mi 25.4 Thornhill Primary School Dunstable · 3.4 mi 55.9 St Vincent's Catholic Primary School Dunstable · 3.5 mi 51.0 Leighton Middle School Leighton Buzzard · 3.6 mi 56.5

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

School overview

Hockliffe Lower School is a primary school serving Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 65 pupils aged 4 to 9 on roll.

92% of the families who made Hockliffe Lower School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.3%. There are about 15.4 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 3% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Hockliffe 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.