Academy converter · Middle deemed secondary
Leighton Buzzard · LU7 3FU · Central Bedfordshire
Ages 9–13
Status: Open
0.7 miles away
OpenMiddle deemed secondaryURN 137636
Brooklands Middle School
Academy converter · Leighton Buzzard · LU7 3PF
Phase
Middle deemed secondary
Age range
Ages 9–13
Pupils
598
Local authority
Central Bedfordshire
Age range
Ages 9–13
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
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.
Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Middle deemed secondary
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 137636
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
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- 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 characteristics
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: THE PYRAMID SCHOOLS TRUST
- Academy trust
- THE PYRAMID SCHOOLS TRUST
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is 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
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Julie Hodgson
- Telephone
- 01525372018
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
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 from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 41%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 6%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 99.0