Bedford Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,480 pupils
86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.8
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Marston Vale Middle School
- Pupils on roll
- 563of 609 places
- Free school meals
- 22.2%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- —
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 8 October 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Marston Vale Middle School (URN 139161, until 1 February 2017).
What the data says
Marston Vale Middle School is a middle school for ages 9–13: pupils move on before GCSEs, so the Department for Education publishes no results or destinations for it.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Bedford and England.
The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).
GCSE results 2025
No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.
Other secondary schools in Bedford
Bedford Free School
Free schools · 536 pupils
86% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.5
Biddenham International School and Sports College
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91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 42.1
Daubeney Academy
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84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.5
Goldington Academy
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95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.3
Kempston Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 773 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.3
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.