Wootton Primary School

About Wootton Primary School

Wootton Primary School is a large state primary in Bedford that, on the surface, looks like it should be a straightforward choice for local families, but the data tells a more nuanced story. The school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in 2024 confirmed it remains Good, a rating it has held consistently since at least its previous graded inspection in 2013. However, when you compare its headline academic metrics against the Bedford local authority average for primary schools, there is no standout performance data to point to. The LA average for Key Stage 2 (the end-of-primary assessments) is 57, but Wootton’s own KS2 results are not provided in the available data, so we cannot say whether it outperforms or underperforms its peers. What we do know is that the school is significantly oversubscribed: for 106 places in the 2025/26 intake, it received 158 total applications, with 100 first-preference applications and 99 first-preference offers. That 1.49 oversubscription ratio suggests strong local demand, even if the academic picture is incomplete.

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