Central Bedfordshire School Catchment Areas

Central Bedfordshire coordinates admissions across 106 primary and 25 secondary schools, with oversubscription criteria applied consistently across the authority.

Dunstable, Bedford and Leighton Buzzard host the biggest clusters — useful to know when a preferred school is oversubscribed, because the next-nearest alternative is often in a neighbouring town rather than the same catchment.

Around 25% of schools in Central Bedfordshire have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.