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Spalding Academy
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–19 · Academy
Neville Avenue, Donington, Spalding PE11 2EJ · spaldingacademy.org.uk · 01775 722484
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 2025
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 45.3
- average Attainment 8 score. Lincolnshire 45.1, England 46
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 1,486
- 82% of 1,820 places
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 30.4%
- First language not English
- 31.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, 297 families put the school first and 311 places were offered; 92% 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 | 311 | 297 | 1 | 92% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 300 | 295 | 1 | 88% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 298 | 273 | 0.9 | 91% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 291 | 312 | 1.1▲ | 85% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 293 | 308 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 45.3, and 31.2% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Lincolnshire it was 45.1, and across England 46.
In 2015/16 the average A level result was grade D (19.4 points per entry).
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●45.3 | 46.0 | ||
| ▼31.2% | 45.4% | ||
| ▼52.3% | 64.8% | ||
| ▼15.0% | 40.5% | ||
| ▼3.60 | 4.09 |
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 139168)
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 25.3 | +6.1 |
| Further education | 59 | −3.9 |
| Apprenticeship | 6.1 | +1.5 |
| Employment | 2.7 | −1.1 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 5 | −0.8 |
| Activity not captured | 1.9 | −1.9 |
A levels and other 16 to 18 results
| 2016/17 | Students | Average grade | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied general | 15 | — | +0.58 |
| Earlier years: Applied general | Students | Average grade | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015/16 | 43 | — | +0.60 |
Where sixth-form leavers went
| Left in 2016/17 | |
|---|---|
| University | 17 |
| Apprenticeship | 13 |
| Employment | 67 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 4 |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 2 April 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Spalding Academy was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 1 Apr 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 139168), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Jun 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Oct 2016Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate 16 to 19 study programmes Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 139168)
What parents said
81% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (83 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 81%
- Replies
- 83
- 6% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 77% who raised concerns
based on the 46% who had a child bullied
based on 27 parents (33%) with SEND