Shortstown Primary School Overview

Shortstown Primary School is a primary school located in Bedford and reports to the local authority of Bedford.

Shortstown Primary School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 2 to 11 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 420 students but currently enrols 480 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.

Shortstown Primary School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 37.3% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 24.2% of students at the school.

25.2% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Shortstown Primary School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

School Type

Primary

Age Range

2 - 11 years old

Gender

Mixed School

Religion

Does not apply

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Shortstown Primary School

Beauvais Square
Bedford
MK42 0GS

0123 474 0881

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Local Authority
Bedford

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted Rating

Good

Last Inspection

13th October 2021

(4 years, 7 months, 19 days ago)

School Rank

11357

Ranked 11,357 of 13,434 Primary Schools

Current Capacity

Overall Capacity

Gender Capacity

Student Ethnicities

1st Language

Free School Meals

Special Education Needs (SEN)

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Cohort Sizes By Gender

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