Fulbrook School, Milton Keynes

Ofsted's report card from its 20 January 2026 inspection grades Fulbrook School on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Generally, pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, learn well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have worked very well to overhaul the recent decline in pupils' attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils access a broad and balanced learning experience."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school has recently updated its approaches to support vulnerable pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have an accurate understanding of the school's strengths."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal development programme is well crafted."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should continue to refine their systems to maintain an accurate understanding of pupils' holistic progress when they attend full time alternative provision. • Leaders should ensure that teachers have the expertise and knowledge to use the information they have about pupils' needs and learning to adapt their teaching effectively so that pupils learn securely across the curriculum. • Leaders should continue to develop the personal development programme to ensure that pupils develop a deep and rich understanding of key issues that prepare them for life and work in modern Britain".

In its own words: "It has been an absolute honour and privilege to have been the school’s Head Teacher for the last eleven years. This followed on from when I first joined Fulbrook as Head of Modern Foreign Languages, twenty-two years ago, before taking on various leadership responsibilities at the school."

In 2026, pupils at Fulbrook School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.2, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.7 in Central Bedfordshire and 47 across England.

40% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 41% in Central Bedfordshire and 47% in England.

That is in line with 2025, when the score was 42.9.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 29.3, against 48 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 18.7 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Business Studies and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 31 families put Fulbrook School as their first choice and 74 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Fulbrook School are Glebe Farm School (1.3 miles); Walton High (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 44); Brooklands Academy (2.4 miles); and Kents Hill Park all-through school (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 45.5).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Fulbrook School.

Fulbrook School is one of 7 schools run by Kingsbridge Educational Trust, an academy trust.

169 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Fulbrook School (as of April 2026): 82% would recommend the school, 78% say their child is happy there and 58% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (82%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (58%).

8.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (74%) and Mixed (10%).

In 2026, 50 pupils (9.1%) received SEN support and 27 (4.9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

The nearest railway station is Woburn Sands Rail Station, about 510 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Weathercock Lane (s-bound), 140 metres away.

In 2024/25, Fulbrook School issued 63 suspensions, 11.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Fulbrook School are Swallowfield Primary (0.2 miles), Aspley Guise Village School (1.1 miles), St Mary's Wavendon CofE Primary (1.3 miles) and Wavendon Gate School (1.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.