- Upcoming changes to this school
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From September 2024 this school will become a primary school providing school places for year groups reception to year 6. Each year group will have a PAN (published admission number) of 120 places.
Changes for this school New PAN New year group range School type and number of places 120 Reception to year 6 Primary, 840 places - School
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Biggleswade Academy
- Open events for parents and carers
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Thursday 16 November 2023
Kitelands Road (reception to year 2) 9:30am
9.30am Principal talk and tour of Reception classrooms only.
Mead End (year 3 to year 8) 4pm until 6pm
Principal talk and tours of the school.
- Type of school
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Lower / middle combined school - Academy
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Mead End
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Biggleswade
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Bedfordshire
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SG18 8JU
- Telephone
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01767 660515
- Email address
- enquiries@biggleswadeacademy.org
- Website
- http://www.biggleswadeacademy.org/
- Headteacher
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Mark Steer
- Age range
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2 to 13
- Ofsted inspection
- Published admission numbers (places available)
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Reception: 90, year 5: 50
- Designated measuring point
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Front door of Kitelands Road site
- Oversubscription criteria
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Oversubscription criteria:
- all 'looked after' children or children who were previously 'looked after', including children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted (see definition below)
- children in catchment with siblings at the academy
- children of academy staff (see definition below)
- children in catchment
- non-catchment children with siblings at the academy
- other non-catchment children by distance
Definition of 'children who appear to have been in state care outside of England'
Children who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
A child is regarded as having been in state care in a place outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation or any other provider of care whose sole purpose if to benefit society.
Definition of staff
All staff employed by the school for at least two years for the purpose of working in the school as follows; all full time teaching staff, all full time support staff – defined as those on a 37 week and above contract, all part time teaching staff employed on a 0.5 or greater contract, all part time support staff who work more than 15 hours per week for 37 weeks or more. The definition does not include peripatetic staff.
- Allocation statistics
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Entry to year 5 Published admission number (PAN) Requests Places offered Last place offered 50 49 49 At the time of the initial allocation in April 2023 all applicants were offered a place - In-year admissions
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Information for in-year admission during academic year September 2023 to July 2024
Admission number per year group:
- reception to year 3: 90
- year 4: 60
- years 5 to 8: 140
Oversubscription criteria: As above
- School closures
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You can either check our website for school closures or register to get email alerts if a school closes:
- School transport
- School transport timetables
- Report incorrect school information
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If you believe any of the information on this page is incorrect, please email admissions@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk to let us know.
- Music lessons in schools
- Term dates
- SEND provision
- https://www.biggleswadeacademy.org/page/?title=SEND+Local+Offer+-+Early+Years&pid=152