Tennyson Road Primary School
Luton, LU1 3RS · Luton local authority
Luton’s School Grade B better than 60% of towns in England
What stands out about Tennyson Road Primary School
- Its own letter, A+: Key Stage 2 results better than 97% of England’s primary schools
- 86% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24 points above England’s schools
- Ofsted: Outstanding, June 2024 (shown, not graded)
- 79% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (89 of 113)
- Homes in its postcode sector (LU1 3) sold for a median £237,500; Luton’s is £315,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 86%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 97% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Luton avg 64%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 107 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 37 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Tennyson Road Primary School?
79% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (18), 2020 (15), 2021 (8), 2022 (10), 2023 (20), 2024 (26), 2025 (52), 2026 (24). 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. Tennyson Learning Community sets the admissions rules. Apply through Luton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
79% got their first choice
Luton and Luton, side by side
2023–2025All 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.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillborough Junior School | A+ | 36% | 86% |
| Tennyson Road Primary School | A+ | 32% | 86% |
| Leagrave Primary School | A+ | 26% | 85% |
| Denbigh Primary School | A− | 25% | 75% |
| Chantry Primary Academy | A− | 30% | 73% |
| St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Primary School | A− | 23% | 73% |
| River Bank Primary School | A− | 24% | 71% |
| Stopsley Community Primary School | B+ | 22% | 70% |
| Downside Primary School | B+ | 21% | 70% |
| Putteridge Primary School | B+ | 17% | 68% |
| The Meads Primary School | B | 30% | 66% |
| William Austin Junior School | B | 30% | 65% |
| Foxdell Primary School | B− | 26% | 64% |
| Waulud Primary School | B− | 46% | 64% |
| Bushmead Primary & Nursery School | B− | 14% | 64% |
| Southfield Primary Academy | B− | 28% | 64% |
| Whitefield Primary Academy | B− | 46% | 64% |
| Someries Junior School | B− | 15% | 63% |
| Icknield Primary School | B− | 21% | 63% |
| St Martin De Porres Catholic Primary School | B− | 13% | 63% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Cutenhoe Hill Primary School | B− | 32% | 62% |
| Farley Junior Academy | C+ | 39% | 60% |
| Ferrars Junior School | C+ | 23% | 60% |
| Bramingham Primary School | C+ | 14% | 59% |
| Beech Hill Community Primary School | C+ | 29% | 59% |
| Warden Hill Junior School | C+ | 21% | 58% |
| St Matthew's Primary School | C | 34% | 57% |
| Maidenhall Primary School | C | 22% | 56% |
| Ramridge Primary School | C | 29% | 56% |
| Dallow Primary School | C | 24% | 56% |
| The Linden Academy | C | 34% | 55% |
| Parklea Primary School | C | 25% | 54% |
| Norton Road Primary School | C− | 31% | 52% |
| Pirton Hill Primary School | C− | 37% | 52% |
| Wigmore Primary | C− | 20% | 52% |
| Beechwood Primary School | C− | 23% | 50% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025737 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.
Girls and boys
Tennyson Road Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
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.
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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Outstanding, June 2024.
Living near Tennyson Road Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in LU1 3, the school’s postcode sector
Luton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in LU1 3 sell for well under 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
18 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Luton, LU1 3RS
Tennyson Road Primary School: common questions
Is Tennyson Road Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 97% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A+), with 86% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Outstanding, June 2024.
How hard is it to get into Tennyson Road Primary School?
For September 2026, 113 families put Tennyson Road Primary School first and 89 of them were offered a place; 90 places were offered in all.
What is Tennyson Road Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (June 2024).
How much do houses cost near Tennyson Road Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, LU1 3, sold for a median £237,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (215 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.
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