Bedford Free School Overview

Bedford Free School is a secondary school located in Bedford and reports to the local authority of Bedford.

Bedford Free School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 500 students but currently enrols 529 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Bedford Free School students range across many different ethnicities with White Other being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 17.0% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 66.7% of students at the school.

26.7% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Bedford Free School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

School Type

Secondary

Age Range

11 - 16 years old

Gender

Mixed School

Religion

None

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Bedford Free School

Cauldwell Street
Bedford
MK42 9AD

0123 433 2299

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Local Authority
Bedford

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted Rating

Outstanding

Last Inspection

16th January 2020

(6 years, 4 months, 18 days ago)

School Rank

586

Ranked 586 of 5,569 Secondary Schools

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