Waulud Primary School

About Waulud Primary School

Waulud Primary School is a state-funded mixed primary school in Luton, serving children aged 3 to 11. It sits within a local authority that contains 46 primary schools, and its most recent ranking places it 31st among them, putting it in the bottom half of Luton primaries. For context, the top-performing peers in the area include Tennyson Road Primary School, Hillborough Junior School, and River Bank Primary School, all of which score higher on the same ranking metric. The nearest school rated Outstanding by Ofsted is Leagrave Primary School, about 1.8 kilometres away. Waulud itself holds a Good rating from its most recent graded inspection in 2012, and an ungraded inspection in 2023 confirmed the school remains Good. That represents a notable improvement from its previous inspection in 2010, when overall effectiveness was judged as Requires Improvement. The school is led by headteacher Anne Devereux and has a capacity of 420 pupils, though it currently enrols 452, making it oversubscribed.

Academically, Waulud’s Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 year show a mixed picture. The proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths combined was 53%, which is below the Luton local authority average of 62%. Broken down by subject, 80% met the expected standard in writing, 69% in maths, and 58% in reading. At the higher standard, the figures were lower: 24% in reading, 14% in writing, and just 5% in maths, with only 2% achieving the higher standard across all three subjects. Average scaled scores were 102 for reading and 101 for maths. Progress scores are not available for the school, so it is not possible to say how pupils’ progress compares with similar pupils nationally. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 30% of all primaries on the combined expected standard metric, and in the East of England region it sits around the 69th percentile.

The school offers a broad range of facilities including a library, music rooms, playing fields, an outdoor playground, a sensory room, and a chapel. Sports provision includes swimming, athletics, dance, rounders, netball, and football, while extracurricular clubs cover eco, book, gardening, chess, and science. Waulud has an extensive SEND offer, supporting pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disabilities, and autistic spectrum disorder. The school also has nursery provision for younger children. For the 2025/26 intake, the school received 83 total applications for 57 places, with 53 first-preference offers made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.46. This suggests strong local demand, particularly from families who value the school’s inclusive SEND support and its range of on-site facilities.

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