Living in Leighton Buzzard with children
Leighton Buzzard, Central Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. What the published figures say about its schools, its homes and daily life, each with its source and date. 42,736 people in 17,925 households; 31.9% of households have dependent children (Census 2021 (ONS, via NOMIS), summed over the town's output areas).
Schools
22 schools: 16 state primary, 6 state secondaryLeighton Buzzard on the schools map →Every school in Leighton Buzzard, with inspection, league band and the last place offered
State primary schools (16)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookmead School | Good | Top 10% (13/143) in Buckinghamshire | — |
| St Michael's Church of England Combined School | School remains Good | (140/143) in Buckinghamshire | 3.328 miles (2026) |
| Beaudesert Lower School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Clipstone Brook Lower School | Good | — | — |
| Dovery Academy | Outstanding | — | — |
| Greenleas School | Good | — | — |
| Heathwood Lower School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Hockliffe Lower School | Good | — | — |
| Leedon Lower School | Ofsted report card | — | — |
| Linslade Lower School | Ofsted report card | — | — |
| Pulford CofE VA Lower School | Good | — | — |
| Southcott Lower School | School remains Good | — | — |
| St Leonards CE Academy | Good | — | — |
| Stanbridge Lower School | Good | — | — |
| The Mary Bassett Lower School | Good | — | — |
| The Rushmere Park Academy | Ofsted report card | — | — |
State secondary schools (6)
| School | Inspection | League rank | Last place offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars Upper School | Good | 1st (1/16) in Central Bedfordshire | — |
| Vandyke Upper School | School remains Good | Top 19% (3/16) in Central Bedfordshire | — |
| Brooklands Middle School | Good | — | — |
| Gilbert Inglefield Academy | Ofsted report card | — | — |
| Leighton Middle School | School remains Good | — | — |
| Linslade School | School remains Good | — | — |
Rank: the school's place among its council's schools of the same phase, from three years of DfE results (kinplace's league table, how it is worked out); schools with hidden or no results get none. Inspections: Ofsted and ISI. Last place offered: the council's offer-day figures. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.
Homes and prices
Typical sale, last 12 months (Land Registry)The middle sale of each type, September 2025 to August 2026: half sold for more, half for less (129 detached, 216 semi-detached, 208 terraced, 121 flat or maisonette sales). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, standard sales inside the ONS built-up area outline of Leighton Buzzard. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Look up a home in Leighton Buzzard →Getting around
Stops and stations (NaPTAN), and broadband (Ofcom)Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes). Straight-line distances.
Gigabit broadband can be ordered at 69% of premises, and superfast (30 Mbit/s) at 94%, on average across the 1,263 postcodes in LU7. Check the postcode you are looking at: it can differ street by street.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2025, fixed broadband coverage by postcode (an average of postcodes, not of homes).
Safety and environment
The town centre; addresses varyChildcare
Ofsted early years register; published pricesWhat Ofsted found: 1 outstanding; 11 good, or expected standard; 1 requires improvement; 7 not inspected yet. A typical nursery place in this region costs about £7.58 an hour for a two-year-old.
All of them: 5 in Buckinghamshire · 15 in Central Bedfordshire.
Sources: Ofsted, Childcare providers and inspections; each nursery's own fees page, read by 19 October 2026; Coram Family and Childcare, Childcare Survey 2026: average nursery price for 50 hours a week after the working-parent entitlement (paying for 20 hours), by region.
Childcare costs near you →Key dates, Central Bedfordshire
The next dates for families applyingApplication deadlines and offer days: Central Bedfordshire · Buckinghamshire.
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