Queensbury Academy
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
D45
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Dunstable, LU6 3BU
- Distance
- 1.1km away
Priory Academy
Priory Academy, Britain Street, Dunstable, LU5 4JA
Local ranking7th of 26 secondary schools in Central Bedfordshire
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
All-through
Phase
700
Capacity
9-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 SATs · Ofsted inspection 20 April 2023. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 42.0 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 45.0% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 58.7% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 109
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 98.0%
- Continued in education
- 93.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 2.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 808
- Boys
- 436 (53%)
- Girls
- 394 (47%)
- Capacity
- 700 (119% full)
- SEND
- 16.0%
- FSM Eligible
- 13.7%
- EAL
- 16.7%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 5.2%
- SEN Support
- 10.8%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 18.6:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.5
- Budget per Pupil
- £6,639/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 7.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 17.7% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- All-through
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Not applicable
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 66.1%
- White Other: 9.1%
- Other: 3.6%
- Asian Indian: 3.2%
- Asian Other: 3.0%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.9%
- Black African: 2.9%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.5%
66.1%
White British
9.1%
White Other
3.6%
Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Priory Academy, Britain Street
Dunstable, East of England
Administrative
- URN
- 138181
- UKPRN
- 10037432
- Establishment No.
- 4007
- Trust
- SCHOLARS' EDUCATION TRUST
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