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Somercotes Academy
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–16 · Sponsored academy
Keeling Street, North Somercotes, Louth LN11 7PN · somercotesacademy.co.uk · 01507 353459
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Dec 2024
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 40.6
- average Attainment 8 score. Lincolnshire 45.1, England 46
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 395
- 87% of 456 places
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
- Sixth form
- No
- Free school meals
- 48%
- First language not English
- 0.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, 56 families put the school first and 76 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 76 | 56 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 59 | 55 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 86 | 70 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 74 | 60 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 89 | 87 | 1 | 94% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 40.6, and 29.6% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Lincolnshire it was 45.1, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼40.6 | 46.0 | ||
| ▼29.6% | 45.4% | ||
| ▼45.7% | 64.8% | ||
| ▲56.8% | 40.5% | ||
| ▼3.63 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth form college | 29.7 | −1.6 |
| Further education | 53.8 | 0 |
| Apprenticeship | 5.5 | +4.2 |
| Employment | 3.3 | — |
| Not in a lasting destination | 6.6 | −2.2 |
| Activity not captured | 1.1 | −0.2 |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 11 December 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Somercotes Academy was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 10 Dec 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 120653), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Feb 2015Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 120653)
What parents said
43% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (76 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 43%
- Replies
- 76
- 18% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 89% who raised concerns
based on the 66% who had a child bullied
based on 27 parents (36%) with SEND