Marston Vale Middle School

Pupils

Pupils on roll

563

Places

609

How full

92% full — 563 of 609 places taken

Girls / boys

276 / 287

Overall absence

6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent

18%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years

22%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language

5%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan

4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support

7%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.

Source coverage

DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.

What this means

The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.

What this does not mean

The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price

£363,750

postcode sector MK43 9 · 326 sales

Typical range

£311,875 to £450,500

middle half of sales

Detached

£470,000

Semi-detached

£330,000

Terraced

£302,000

Homes around this school are dearer than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree

31%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications

14%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work

16%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways

12%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health

54%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier

71%

England 62.7%

Social housing

15%

England 17%

Privately rented

8%

England 19.2%

Detached homes

39%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms

31%

England 22.5%

No car

9%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Bedford 020B and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type

Academy converter

Phase

Middle deemed secondary

Ages

Ages 9–13

Gender

Mixed

Religious character

None

Sixth form

No

Nursery

No

Boarding

Day school

Trust

Chiltern Learning Trust

Headteacher

Headteacher: Simon Wathen

Opened as this establishment

1 February 2017

Register status

Open

Local authority

Bedford

Ward

Wixams & Wilstead

Constituency

Mid Bedfordshire

URN

145861

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record

Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Nearest middle deemed secondary schools

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.