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St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold

PrimaryAges 5–9AcademyChurch of England

Stotfold, SG5 4DL · Central Bedfordshire local authority

Stotfold’s School Grade C better than 32% of towns in England

Getting in
59/66
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
297 pupils
99% of its 300 places
Free school meals
18%
18 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, February 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 89% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (59 of 66)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SG5 4) sold for a median £430,000; Stotfold’s is £430,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold?

89% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

66
families put it first for September 2026
59
places offered
89%
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: 2022 (2), 2024 (6), 2026 (7). 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. St Mary'S Church of England Academy, Stotfold sets the admissions rules. Apply through Central Bedfordshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Stotfold, September 2026

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

St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold
1.12 per place
89% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

292 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
5.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
14.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

No letter for St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold

A first or lower school: pupils move on before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

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.

Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, February 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold

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

Home prices in SG5 4, the school’s postcode sector

Stotfold property prices →
£430,000
median sale, 621 sales in 36 months · Stotfold £430,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025SG5 4Stotfold
SG5 4Stotfold

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£535K
Semi-detached
£425K
Terraced
£368K
Flat
£255K
SG5 4Stotfold

Homes in SG5 4 sell for about the same as Stotfold’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

7 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBBC+C+St Mary's CofE Academy Stot…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Stotfold, SG5 4DL

St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold?

For September 2026, 66 families put St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold first and 59 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.

What is St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (February 2025).

How much do houses cost near St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold?

Homes in its postcode sector, SG5 4, sold for a median £430,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (621 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; Stotfold’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.