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Secondary school in Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire

All Saints Academy Dunstable

Houghton Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 5AB

Sixth form Church of England
School website 01582619700

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 12 November 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

36.9 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

25% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

56% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

70% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.88confidence interval -1.14 to -0.63

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D-
Average points per entry
16.7

England average 32.3

A level students
9

Pupils

Pupils on roll
520
Places
740
How full
70% full — 520 of 740 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
248 / 272
Overall absence
9%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
35%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
19%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
22%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
81%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
16%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
119

After sixth form

Went to university
42%

England 50%

In education, work or training
92%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
17%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
12

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

5% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
53%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
19

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Central Bedfordshire 026A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
31%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
83%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
5%

England 17%

Households with no car
8%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
29%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ALL SAINTS ACADEMY DUNSTABLE
Headteacher
Headteacher: Elizabeth Furber
Local authority
Central Bedfordshire
Ward
Houghton Regis West
Constituency
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
URN
135946

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Priory AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 46.2 1 mi
Queensbury AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 40 1.2 mi
The Chalk Hills AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 45.7 1.7 mi
Houstone SchoolFree schools No grade 46.1 1.7 mi
Manshead Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 43 2.1 mi
Al Hikmah Boys SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.6 mi
King's House MoorlandsOther independent school No grade 2.6 mi
Challney High School for GirlsAcademy converter No grade 50.1 2.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Wood Green AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.7
Writhlington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 40.3
St Edmund's Catholic SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 39
University Technical College LeedsUniversity technical college Good 2023 46.2
Norlington School and 6th FormAcademy converter Good 2023 48.6
St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 44.5
Chessington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 43.4
Longdendale High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 41.1

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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