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Primary · SG18 · Biggleswade

St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

Brunts Lane, Biggleswade, SG18 0LY

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At a glance

Key published figures for this school.

OfstedNo overall grade
Attendance (2024/25)95.3%
Attainment (2024/25)–
Roll vs capacityClose to published capacity
Pupils945

Ofsted inspection

Latest Ofsted report card

Report card grades

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Needs attention
Achievement
Needs attention
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Early years
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Needs attention

Ofsted grades each area on its own, from urgent improvement up to exceptional. Expected standard means the school is doing everything it should. These grades cannot be compared with the old overall grades.

Report published 16 Jul 2026.

Inspection history

  • Latest ungradedSchool remains Good
  • Previous gradedGood

This page shows previous graded and latest ungraded outcomes when Ofsted publishes them in the national file. Full history stays on the Ofsted report.

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School figures

Coloured bars compare this school with the average for other schools in SG18. Where we have them, council (Central Bedfordshire) and England figures appear under FSM, SEN and attendance. FSM, SEN and EAL are context, not quality scores. For attendance, higher is usually better.

Pupils on roll
945
Free school meals
12.5%
10.4% below district average (22.9%)

Also: Central Bedfordshire 11.9% · England 24.7%

SEN
17.1%
9.1% below district average (26.2%)

Also: Central Bedfordshire 15.7% · England 18.2%

EAL
4.8%
0.4% above district average (4.4%)
Attendance
95.3% Autumn and spring 2024/25
1.9% above district average (93.4%)

Also: Central Bedfordshire 95% · England 94.8%

Each metric uses its own colour so you can tell the rows apart. The lighter bar is the SG18 average; the darker bar is this school.

Compared with England

Persistent absence is 2024/25. England is the state-funded average. Lower persistent absence is better.

Persistent absence2024/25

9.4%

3.9% below England (13.3%)

Trends

Attendance

Autumn and spring 2024/25 from DfE pupil absence data (where published for this URN). The headline above uses the same period.

  • 96.1%
    2020/21
  • 93.3%
    2021/22
  • 94.9%
    2022/23
  • 95%
    2023/24
  • 95.3%
    2024/25

Admissions

Applications and offers (September 2026 entry)

For September 2026 entry, 45 families put this school first. All of them were offered a place here.

Named as first preference
45
First-preference offers
45
First preferences offered a place
100%
Total offers
57
Named on any preference
143

This is historic demand from one admissions round. It is not a guarantee of a place, and it does not show a catchment area. Admission rules and priorities differ by school.

SourceDfE applications and offers, September 2026 entryPublished 18th of June 2026.

How full the building is

Roll versus published capacity
Close to published capacity
Published capacity (GIAS)
1020
Pupils on roll
945

Pupils on roll compared with the capacity published in GIAS. This is about building size, not applications or offers, and it is not a guarantee of a place.

Applications and offers come from DfE. Last distance offered and catchment areas are not published nationally. Your council admissions booklet has those details.

Check your council admissions booklet via the Central Bedfordshire page.

SEN support

SEN %
17.1%
On-site provision
Resourced provision · SLCN

A higher SEN percentage can mean experience with support needs, or more demand on staff. Ask the SENCO what is available day to day.

Schools near St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

Distances are in a straight line from this school. They are not catchment areas.

Other nearby schools

All schools in SG18 · Schools in Central Bedfordshire

Sources and freshness

  • School year for most DfE figures: 2024/25.
  • Pipeline last checked: Oct 2026.
  • Council and England attendance / FSM tables: 2024/25.
  • School figures from DfE / GIAS / Ofsted where published. District averages use other schools in this postcode district. Council and England figures use DfE local authority and national tables for the matching phase.
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  • Methodology · Data updates