Beechwood Primary School

Beechwood Primary School has made significant progress since its last inspection, now rated as good across all areas of performance. The school fosters a welcoming and inclusive environment where pupils demonstrate pride in their school community and show positive attitudes toward learning. Strong relationships among staff, pupils, and parents enhance the school's supportive atmosphere, contributing to pupils' overall happiness and safety. The school also offers a broad and ambitious curriculum, particularly excelling in English, mathematics, and physical education, which supports pupils' achievement, particularly for disadvantaged and vulnerable learners.

Strengths

• Pupils are proud to be part of the school community.
• Strong relationships between staff, pupils, and parents support learning.
• The curriculum focuses on extending vocabulary and building knowledge in core subjects.
• Effective support for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs.
• Pupils enjoy a broad range of extra-curricular clubs and activities.
• Strong emphasis on early reading skills and well-structured phonics lessons.
• Behaviour is good and learning is rarely interrupted.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum planning in some foundation subjects needs improvement.
• Curriculum leaders lack understanding of subject teaching in early years.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Beechwood Primary School attended 93.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Beechwood Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Beechwood Primary School had 23.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 16.3% of pupils at Beechwood Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Beechwood Primary School received £6,628 and spent £6,538 for each of its 851 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £429,000 (£505 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Beechwood Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beechwood Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Beechwood Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beechwood Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Beechwood Primary School have?

Beechwood Primary School has 873 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beechwood Primary School cover?

Beechwood Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Beechwood Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 46% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Beechwood Primary School?

Beechwood Primary School is at Linden Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 9RD.