All Saints Academy Dunstable
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 520 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 36.9
Free schools
Houstone School
- Pupils on roll
- 765of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 28.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 70
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 20 May 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
The Department for Education has not published where Houstone School’s Year 11 leavers went next, so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.
Art and Design is unusually popular at GCSE: 37% of the year group took it, against 7% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 46.1 against 46.1 across England and 43.6 in Central Bedfordshire, with 56% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Central Bedfordshire 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
| Measure | Houstone School | Central Bedfordshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 46.1 | 43.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 56% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 77% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 27% | 28% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.16 | 3.75 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 24% | 18% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 36.2 | 28.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 49.2 | 46.7 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 37% | 8% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 68 | 97% | 88% | 16% | 22% | 88% |
| Combined Science | 67 | 96% | 65% | 21% | 9% | 66% |
| English Language | 67 | 96% | 89% | 19% | 20% | 76% |
| English Literature | 67 | 96% | 86% | 16% | 21% | 73% |
| History | 36 | 51% | 41% | 11% | 26% | 50% |
| Geography | 35 | 50% | 41% | 20% | 25% | 57% |
| Physical Education | 30 | 43% | 11% | 3% | 24% | 47% |
| Computer Science | 30 | 43% | 13% | 10% | 30% | 50% |
| Art and Design | 26 | 37% | 7% | 0% | 24% | 46% |
| Spanish | 22 | 31% | 19% | 27% | 27% | 77% |
| Religious Studies | 20 | 29% | 31% | 40% | 32% | 85% |
| Polish | 3 | 4% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Modern Greek | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 33% | — |
| Portuguese | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Business Studies | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 20% | — |
Other secondary schools in Central Bedfordshire
Cedars Upper School
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87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.5
Etonbury Academy
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93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.5
Harlington Upper School
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83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.8
Manshead Church of England Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,134 pupils
92% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.0
Priory Academy
Academy converter · 830 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.2
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.