Challney High School for Boys
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Luton
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.096 miles
Published by Luton Borough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Challney High School for Boys is a secondary school in Luton for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Luton has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
Challney High School for Boys 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.096 mi |
| Year 7 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 Year 7 place in 2026 lived 1.096 miles from the school, the 4th longest of 8 Luton secondary schools with a published last distance, and nearer than in 2025.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026 there were 218 first-choice applications for 230 offers; 200 offers went to first-choice families and 18 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 54% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Luton.
- The school has 15.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.6 across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Luton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Luton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stoneygate Road, Luton, LU4 9TJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Luton
- Pupils on roll
- 1,197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Challney boys are immensely proud of their school.”
- “They recognise and value the breadth of opportunities that their education offers them.”
- “‘We are a community’ is a phrase that is often heard as pupils speak enthusiastically about Challney’s ‘five-star’ values.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 54% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.7 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 218 first-preference applications, 230 offers in total, 200 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Luton.
- Challney High School for Girls 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Chalk Hills Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lealands High School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Denbigh High School 1.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Lea Manor High School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Icknield High School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- The Stockwood Park Academy 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science College 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published