Samuel Whitbread Academy Overview

Samuel Whitbread Academy is a secondary & 6th form school located in Shefford and reports to the local authority of Central Bedfordshire.

Samuel Whitbread Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 13 to 18 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is fully subscribed rate as it has an official capacity of 1670 students and they currently enrol 1670 pupils across all class years. This is quite common in most schools and doesn't generally affect your chances of a successful application one way or the other.

Samuel Whitbread Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 85.2% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.2% of students at the school.

10.8% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Samuel Whitbread Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities