Directory of schools in Central Bedfordshire - Holywell CofE School - Cranfield

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Headteacher welcome presentations at 5:15pm and 6:30pm

There will also be a student-led guided tours from 5:15pm (final tours from 6:30pm).

For current students, there will be self-led tours to find out information about the planned key stage 4 curriculum offer.

Holywell School is part of the re-organisation of schooling in the Cranfield area where schools are moving from a 3-tier system to a 2-tier system. Holywell School will be transitioning from a middle school to a secondary school and will not have a year 5 intake in September 2026. However, the school will have a year 9 group in September 2026 which the current year 8 students will automatically move up to. It is likely that there may be some places for students outside of Holywell to join the year 9 cohort. The school will therefore hold an open evening to explain this change to parents, to explain the offer to students in year 9 / key stage 4 and to explain the application process for families not currently at Holywell.

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Oversubscription criteria:

• a looked after child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to an adoption, child arrangements, or special guardianship order including those children who appear to the Governing Board to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted
• children with a sibling attending the school at the time of application
  children of staff in either or both of the following circumstances: a) where the member of staff is employed at the school at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made; and/or b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post at the school for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage. Staff can access information about “demonstrable skill shortage” roles by referring to the list held by the school business manager or by referring to their letter of appointment
• children who live in the catchment area. The catchment area comprises (i) the ecclesiastical parish of Cranfield; (ii) the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary’s Marston Moreteyne and Lidlington, and (iii) the ecclesiastical parish of St Mary’s Wootton
• other children who are on the school roll of Cranfield Church of England Academy at the date of application
• children of a parent/carer who is a regular worshipper at a Christian church. For the purposes of these admission arrangements a Christian church shall mean a church which, at the time of application, is a member of the Anglican Communion or is a member church of Churches Together in England, the Evangelical Alliance and/or Affinity
• other children, with priority for admission given to children who live nearest to the school

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