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Rivertree Free School

Special schoolAges 2–19Free schoolSixth form

Kempston, MK42 8QP · Bedford local authority

Kempston’s School Grade C− better than 17% of towns in England

How full
126 pupils
63% of its 200 places
Free school meals
35%
35 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Rivertree Free School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 126 pupils for 200 places
  • 35% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (MK42 8) sold for a median £300,000; Kempston’s is £290,000
Its letter

No letter for Rivertree Free School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

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.

Not inspected yet (a new school, or one that changed status recently).

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Rivertree Free School

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

Home prices in MK42 8, the school’s postcode sector

Kempston property prices →
£300,000
median sale, 327 sales in 36 months · Kempston £290,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025MK42 8Kempston
MK42 8Kempston

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£375K
Semi-detached
£301K
Terraced
£254K
Flat
£214K
MK42 8Kempston

Homes in MK42 8 sell for a little over Kempston’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

14 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−A−C−C−C−B+C−BDDCDC+DRivertree Free School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Kempston, MK42 8QP

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; Kempston’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.

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