Official inspection reports and grades
Inspected 25 November 2025
School workforce census, 2025/26.
Ofsted inspected Ridgmont Lower School on 25 November 2025 using a report card, which grades each area separately and gives no overall grade. The school met Ofsted's safeguarding standards. It was graded Strong standard for attendance and behaviour; Expected standard for achievement, for curriculum and teaching, for inclusion, for leadership and governance and for personal development and wellbeing.
Apply through the council where you live by 15 January for a Reception place starting that September. Children start Reception in the September after their fourth birthday. You can usually list between 3 and 6 schools in order of preference, and offers are sent on 16 April, or the next working day. A place in its nursery class does not carry on into Reception, so you still need to apply.
No. Distance only counts when Ridgmont Lower School has more applicants than places. Then its admission criteria, set by the local authority, Central Bedfordshire, decide who is offered a place first. Children in care or adopted from care come first by law. Most schools put brothers and sisters of current pupils next, then distance or a catchment area. How far away the last place went changes every year, depending on who applies.
Ridgmont Lower School had 11 pupils aged 3 to 9 at the latest school census. Its official capacity is 90. It is a mixed school.