Brookmead School
High Street, Ivinghoe, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9EXOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Brookmead School is a primary school in Leighton Buzzard for ages 4 to 11. It is one of the 268 schools in Buckinghamshire. It ranks 1st of 5 primary schools in Leighton Buzzard. Its latest Ofsted inspection, in May 2025, graded each key judgement and gave no overall Ofsted rating.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 20 May 2025, report published 18 June 2025
This inspection graded each key judgement and gave no overall effectiveness grade.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years provision
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 20 May 2025
Pupils are rightly proud of their school. They live the school's values of 'inspire, challenge and achieve' enthusiastically. The school offers a wide range of educational trips and experiences, including visiting authors and speakers who help to enrich the curriculum regularly. Pupils are happy and have very positive attitudes to their learning. They feel safe and know how to keep themselves safe, including when online. Staff have high expectations for pupils' behaviour. Behaviour management strategies are clear and consistent. Staff adopt positive approaches that focus on recognising and celebrating pupils' achievements. The school is a calm, orderly environment. Pupils thrive in their roles and responsibilities such as house captains, buddies and play leaders. Older pupils help the younger ones, modelling how to share and play kindly together at breaktimes. Pupils are incredibly polite and respectful towards adults and each other. The school has the highest expectations for what pupils can achieve. Staff ensure that children make a strong start in the Reception Year to develop the independence and readiness for learning they need. By the end of key stage 2, pupils achieve consistently strong outcomes in end of year published results for reading, writing and mathematics. Pupils are well prepared for their next stage of education.
What the school should improve
- In some subjects, staff do not identify gaps in pupils' knowledge or address them as well as they could. This means pupils' progress through the curriculum is slowed. The school should continue to strengthen its systems for assessment and support staff to use them consistently well in all subjects
- In some subjects, there are limited opportunities for pupils to practise and apply their learning in independent tasks. This means the work pupils produce does not reflect, and may limit, the depth of their understanding. The school should ensure that pupils have opportunities to practise and apply new learning in independent tasks in all subjects, so that they can achieve the high standards of which they are capable
Exam results
SATs results (key stage 2), 2024/25
52 pupils took the tests
Pupil numbers and mix
299 pupils on roll, with places for 390
Schools near Brookmead School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheddington Combined School | 1 mile | Ofsted judgements: Good to outstanding | 56% met the expected standard |
| Marsworth Church of England Infant School | 2 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
| Grove Road Primary School | 2 miles | Ofsted: Good | 70% met the expected standard |
| Aldbury Church of England Primary and Nursery School | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | 75% met the expected standard |
| Dundale Primary School and Nursery | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | 52% met the expected standard |
School details
- School type
- Foundation school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery classes
- No
- Headteacher
- Mrs Esther Taylor
- Phone
- 01296668543
- Address
- High Street, Ivinghoe, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9EX
- Local authority
- Buckinghamshire
- URN
- 110518
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Exam results for 2024/25 from the Department for Education. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.