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St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Voluntary controlledChurch of England

Biggleswade, SG18 0LY · Central Bedfordshire local authority

Biggleswade’s School Grade D better than 8% of towns in England

Getting in
45/45
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
945 pupils
93% of its 1,020 places
Free school meals
13%
13 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (45 of 45)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SG18 0) sold for a median £330,000; Biggleswade’s is £350,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

45
families put it first for September 2026
57
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (6), 2021 (33), 2022 (21), 2023 (26), 2024 (45), 2025 (12). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Central Bedfordshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Central Bedfordshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Biggleswade, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.02 per place
92% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice
St Andrew's CofE VC Primary
0.79 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

894 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
12.8%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
10.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

No letter for St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting March 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in SG18 0, the school’s postcode sector

Biggleswade property prices →
£330,000
median sale, 404 sales in 36 months · Biggleswade £350,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025SG18 0Biggleswade
SG18 0Biggleswade

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£475K
Semi-detached
£370K
Terraced
£288K
Flat
£179K
SG18 0Biggleswade

Homes in SG18 0 sell for a little under Biggleswade’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−C−BSt Andrew's CofE VC Primary…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Biggleswade, SG18 0LY

St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School?

For September 2026, 45 families put St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 57 places were offered in all.

What is St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near St Andrew's CofE VC Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SG18 0, sold for a median £330,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (404 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Biggleswade’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.