Priory Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Bedford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.22 miles
Published by Bedford Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Priory Primary School is a primary school in Bedford for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. Bedford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Priory Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.22 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.22 miles away, the shortest of 10 Bedford primary schools with a published last distance, and nearer than in 2025.
- For Reception 2026, 44 first-choice applications for 28 offers gave 1.6 first choices per offer, the highest of 51 Bedford primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, 24 offers went to first-choice families, and 20 first-choice families (45%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 50% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bedford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Greyfriars, Bedford, MK40 1JD
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bedford
- Pupils on roll
- 214 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Staff know and respect pupils at Priory Primary School.”
- “Pupils feel welcome when they arrive at different times in the school year.”
- “The school celebrates the diversity in its community.”
To improve
- “However, the most recent published outcomes do not currently reflect the quality of education at this school.”
- “While this is the case, pupils who join the school at different times of the school year often do not reach the expected levels of attainment at the end of key stage 2.”
- “In contrast, pupils’ writing skills are not as well developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 50% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 24 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Bedford.
- Livingstone Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Queen's Park Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Edith Cavell Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westfield Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary and Pre-School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Great Ouse Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cauldwell School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shackleton Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published