Academy · Central Bedfordshire
Gilbert Inglefield Academy
- Secondary
- Ages 9–13
- Term dates checked
Term dates
This school's own term dates broadly match Central Bedfordshire council's, so the council's dates are shown here. INSET days can differ, so check the school's calendar for those.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 27 January 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade. It was inspected as Gilbert Inglefield Academy, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).
Special measures
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Urgent improvement
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Urgent improvement
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards: not met.
Previous inspection, 28 June 2023. Overall: Inadequate It was inspected as Gilbert Inglefield Academy, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- CHILTERN LEARNING TRUST
- Phone
- 01525372266
- Address
- Vandyke Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 3FU
- Website
- gilbertinglefield.com
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.