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23 open schools in Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire · Ofsted ratings, catchment areas and admission criteria · see all Central Bedfordshire schools · grammar schools in Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard has 23 state schools: 16 primary, 6 secondary, part of Central Bedfordshire's wider catchment. 23 have a published Ofsted rating, and 18 of those are rated Good or Outstanding.

Beaudesert Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good Brooklands Middle School Leighton Buzzard · Good Brookmead School Leighton Buzzard · Not judged Cedars Upper School Leighton Buzzard · Good Clipstone Brook Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good Dovery Academy Leighton Buzzard · Not judged Gilbert Inglefield Academy Leighton Buzzard · Inadequate Greenleas School Leighton Buzzard · Good Heathwood Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good Hockliffe Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Not judged Leedon Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Requires improvement Leighton Middle School Leighton Buzzard · Good Linslade Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good Linslade School Leighton Buzzard · Good Oak Bank School Leighton Buzzard · Outstanding Pulford CofE VA Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good Southcott Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good St Leonards CE Academy Leighton Buzzard · Good St Michael's Church of England Combined School Leighton Buzzard · Good Stanbridge Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good The Mary Bassett Lower School Leighton Buzzard · Good The Rushmere Park Academy Leighton Buzzard · Good Vandyke Upper School Leighton Buzzard · Good

Undersubscribed schools rated Good or Outstanding

These schools didn't fill on first preference in the latest admissions year, despite an Ofsted rating of Good or Outstanding — worth a look if you're chasing the same handful of famous names everyone else applies to.

St Leonards CE Academy Good · ×0.56 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Clipstone Brook Lower School Good · ×0.75 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Southcott Lower School Good · ×0.77 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Cedars Upper School Good · ×0.8 1st prefs/place (2025/26) The Mary Bassett Lower School Good · ×0.85 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Greenleas School Good · ×0.86 1st prefs/place (2026/27) The Rushmere Park Academy Good · ×0.9 1st prefs/place (2026/27) Pulford CofE VA Lower School Good · ×0.93 1st prefs/place (2026/27)

How places are allocated in Central Bedfordshire

Primary schools: Catchment area is explicit in the standard criteria order (after staff children, before pure distance) — though one school (St Andrew's, Biggleswade) is dropping its catchment from 2026, showing this can vary by individual school. (source)

Most schools use the local authority's default scheme rather than a school-specific catchment map — see each school's page for its own designated/catchment area where one is published.

Leighton Buzzard straddles a council boundary: the scheme above is Central Bedfordshire's, and Buckinghamshire also has schools here, applying under its own.

Key dates

Entry yearEventDate
Sept 2028 Application deadline 2027-10-31
Sept 2028 Primary application deadline 2028-01-15
Sept 2028 Offer day 2028-03-01
Sept 2028 Primary offer day 2028-04-17
Sept 2027 Application deadline 2026-10-31
Sept 2027 Primary application deadline 2027-01-15
Sept 2027 Offer day 2027-03-01
Sept 2027 Primary offer day 2027-04-16
Sept 2026 Application deadline 2025-10-31 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary application deadline 2026-01-15 (passed)
Sept 2026 Offer day 2026-03-02 (passed)
Sept 2026 Primary offer day 2026-04-16 (passed)

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