Willow Grove Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Wixams, Bedford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.83 miles
Published by Bedford Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Willow Grove Primary School is a primary school in Wixams, Bedford for ages 4–11 (free schools). Bedford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Willow Grove 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 | 3.83 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 3.83 miles away, the longest of 10 Bedford primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 68 first-choice applications for 60 offers, with 60 offers going to first-choice families and 8 first-choice families (12%) not offered a place.
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
- Fisherswood Road, Wixams, MK45 3TE
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Bedford
- Pupils on roll
- 104 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 68 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Wixams Tree Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Lakeview School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilstead Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broadmead Lower School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Springfield Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Elstow School 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Balliol Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Camestone School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published