Gilbert Inglefield Academy
Ofsted: Urgent improvementAcademy converter · Middle deemed secondary
Leighton Buzzard · LU7 3FU · Central Bedfordshire
Ages 9–13
0.7 miles away
OpenMiddle deemed secondaryOfsted: GoodURN 137636
Brooklands Middle School
Academy converter · Leighton Buzzard · LU7 3PF
Ages 9–13 · 598 pupils · Central Bedfordshire
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
48%
Overall absence
6.5%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-07-03
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)48%
Higher standard (RWM)3%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 99.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.5%
Persistent absence (10%+)17.0%
Unauthorised1.1%
- Authorised absence
- 5.3%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.2%
- Enrolments in measure
- 606
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill100%
598 pupils · 600 places
- Pupils on roll
- 598
- Boys / girls
- 313 / 285
- School capacity
- 600
- Capacity fill
- 598 / 600 (100%)
- Free school meals
- 16.4%
- FSM pupils
- 98
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 9–13
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE PYRAMID SCHOOLS TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE PYRAMID SCHOOLS TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julie Hodgson
Location
- Address
- Brooklands Drive
- Postcode
- LU7 3PF
- Town
- Leighton Buzzard
- County
- Bedfordshire
- Local authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- District
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
SEN & specialist provision
As recorded in GIAS — provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Resourced provision
- SEN unit
- SEN unit places
- 9 on roll / 12 capacity
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (middle deemed secondary), Ages 9–13, in Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire, 598 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 16.4%. SEN provision includes: ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
Nearby middle deemed secondary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Leighton Middle School
Ofsted: School remains GoodCommunity school · Middle deemed secondary
Leighton Buzzard · LU7 1EX · Central Bedfordshire
Ages 9–13
- KS277%
- Absence4.7%
- FSM11.4%
0.8 miles away
Linslade School
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy converter · Middle deemed secondary
Leighton Buzzard · LU7 2PA · Central Bedfordshire
Ages 9–13
- KS272%
- Absence5.6%
- FSM9.2%
1.3 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julie Hodgson
- Telephone
- 01525372018