State-fundedAcademy converter · Central Bedfordshire · MK43 0JA · Church of England
Secondary (no sixth form) · ages 9–13
Holywell School is a state-funded school in Central Bedfordshire, teaching pupils aged 9 to 13. It has a religious character (Church of England).
No Progress 8 or Attainment 8 figures are published for this school. That usually means it is newly opened, has a cohort too small for figures to be published without identifying pupils, or is a special school for which the measures are not calculated.
Not published — this school has no applications and offers figures in the Department for Education data.
| Overall absence | 5.8%90th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 14.0%91st percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
School remains Good
The outcome of an ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school's previous grade still holds rather than issuing a new one.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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