Samuel Whitbread Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
C56
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Shefford, SG17 5QS
- Distance
- 1.6km away
Robert Bloomfield Academy
Bloomfield Drive, Shefford, SG17 5BU
Local ranking13th of 26 secondary schools in Central Bedfordshire
Ofsted: Outstanding
Middle deemed secondary
Phase
960
Capacity
9-13
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Ofsted Inspection
Inspected 11 February 2025 — from September 2024 Ofsted no longer gave an overall grade, but each area below was judged in full
Safeguarding standards Met
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour & attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership & management
- Outstanding
Scale: Outstanding · Good · Requires improvement · Inadequate
Year:
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 974
- Boys
- 499 (51%)
- Girls
- 475 (49%)
- Capacity
- 960 (101% full)
- SEND
- 20.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 14.3%
- EAL
- 1.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 5.3%
- SEN Support
- 15.1%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 19.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 50.1
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,950/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 5.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 11.1% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Middle deemed secondary
- Nursery
- Not applicable
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 86.4%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.3%
- Mixed Other: 2.1%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.8%
- White Other: 1.5%
- Black African: 1.4%
- Asian Other: 1.0%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.7%
86.4%
White British
2.3%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
2.1%
Mixed Other
Historical Trends
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Bloomfield Drive
Shefford, East of England
Administrative
- URN
- 136713
- UKPRN
- 10033598
- Establishment No.
- 4034
- Trust
- BEDFORDSHIRE SCHOOLS TRUST LIMITED
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