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Chantry Primary Academy

PrimaryAges 2–11Academy

Luton, LU4 0QP · Luton local authority

Luton’s School Grade B better than 60% of towns in England

Its letter
79%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
64/64
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
631 pupils
89% of its 710 places
Free school meals
30%
30 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Chantry Primary Academy

  • Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 79% of England’s primary schools
  • 73% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (64 of 64)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LU4 0) sold for a median £315,000; Luton’s is £315,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 73%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 79% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Luton avg 64%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Chantry Primary 73%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading84%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)82%
England’s schools 73%
Maths86%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling81%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 45 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
82%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
76%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three18%
England’s schools 8% · Luton 7% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Chantry Primary Academy?

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

64
families put it first for September 2026
66
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

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Pioneer Learning Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Luton council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Luton, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.74 per place
58% got their first choice
1.69 per place
58% got their first choice
1.35 per place
73% got their first choice
1.26 per place
79% got their first choice
1.20 per place
81% got their first choice
1.11 per place
87% got their first choice
1.09 per place
89% got their first choice
1.02 per place
95% got their first choice
1.00 per place
97% got their first choice
Chantry Primary
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice

Luton and Luton, side by side

2023–2025

All 37 graded primaries in Luton. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Luton’s schools are coloured by their letter.

50%57%64%71%78%85%10%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Chantry Primary
ABCDElsewhere in LutonChantry Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Hillborough Junior SchoolA+36%86%
Tennyson Road Primary SchoolA+32%86%
Leagrave Primary SchoolA+26%85%
Denbigh Primary SchoolA−25%75%
Chantry Primary AcademyA−30%73%
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary SchoolA−23%73%
River Bank Primary SchoolA−24%71%
Stopsley Community Primary SchoolB+22%70%
Downside Primary SchoolB+21%70%
Putteridge Primary SchoolB+17%68%
The Meads Primary SchoolB30%66%
William Austin Junior SchoolB30%65%
Foxdell Primary SchoolB−26%64%
Waulud Primary SchoolB−46%64%
Bushmead Primary & Nursery SchoolB−14%64%
Southfield Primary AcademyB−28%64%
Whitefield Primary AcademyB−46%64%
Someries Junior SchoolB−15%63%
Icknield Primary SchoolB−21%63%
St Martin De Porres Catholic Primary SchoolB−13%63%
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Cutenhoe Hill Primary SchoolB−32%62%
Farley Junior AcademyC+39%60%
Ferrars Junior SchoolC+23%60%
Bramingham Primary SchoolC+14%59%
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolC+29%59%
Warden Hill Junior SchoolC+21%58%
St Matthew's Primary SchoolC34%57%
Maidenhall Primary SchoolC22%56%
Ramridge Primary SchoolC29%56%
Dallow Primary SchoolC24%56%
The Linden AcademyC34%55%
Parklea Primary SchoolC25%54%
Norton Road Primary SchoolC−31%52%
Pirton Hill Primary SchoolC−37%52%
Wigmore PrimaryC−20%52%
Beechwood Primary SchoolC−23%50%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

641 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
20.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
56.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
34.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

Chantry Primary Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths A−Better than 79% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Chantry Primary Academy

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

Home prices in LU4 0, the school’s postcode sector

Luton property prices →
£315,000
median sale, 377 sales in 36 months · Luton £315,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025LU4 0Luton
LU4 0Luton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£360K
Semi-detached
£320K
Terraced
£290K
Flat
£155K
LU4 0Luton

Homes in LU4 0 sell for about the same as Luton’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

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B+C−DC−A+C−C+DBC+CC+DB+B−D−A−B−B−C−B+C+A−Chantry Primary Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Luton, LU4 0QP

Chantry Primary Academy: common questions

Is Chantry Primary Academy a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 79% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 73% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2023.

How hard is it to get into Chantry Primary Academy?

For September 2026, 64 families put Chantry Primary Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 66 places were offered in all.

What is Chantry Primary Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Chantry Primary Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, LU4 0, sold for a median £315,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (377 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; Luton’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.