Riseley CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Bedford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bedford Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Riseley CofE Primary School is a primary school in Bedford for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Bedford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Riseley CofE 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 56% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bedford.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 43 of the 53 other Bedford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 10 first-choice applications for 10 offers for Reception 2026, 1.0 first choices per offer and the 11th highest of 51 Bedford primary schools.
- 9.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with 16.7 pupils per teacher; the middle figures across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bedford are 15.8% and 19.
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
- High Street, Riseley, Bedford, MK44 1DR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Bedford
- Pupils on roll
- 121 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “Improvements to the curriculum are helping pupils to learn well.”
- “Pupils enthusiastically take part in their learning.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, teachers do not build on what pupils already know as effectively.”
- “This is because they do not follow the school’s curriculum plans precisely.”
- “However, the school has not communicated the new approaches to the curriculum or behaviour with parents as well as it might.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 May 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) | 56% | 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: 10 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 10 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.
- Kymbrook Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Eileen Wade Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thurleigh Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Sharnbrook Primary 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Pinchmill Primary School 4.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Milton Ernest CofE Primary School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Lawrence Church of England Primary School 5.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ravensden CofE Primary Academy 5.9 mi Good Last distance published