Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in LincolnshireSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry275 applications · 202 places offered · 152 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.4; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.4; Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2022 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2019 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2018 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2016 1.4; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2015 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- This school
- Lincolnshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 202 | 275 | 1.4 | 152 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2025 | 203 | 303 | 1.5 | 176 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2024 | 193 | 269 | 1.4 | 135 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2023 | 223 | 316 | 1.4 | 187 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2022 | 231 | 356 | 1.5 | 209 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 | 198 | 345 | 1.7 | 196 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2020 | 205 | 345 | 1.7 | 217 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2019 | 227 | 373 | 1.6 | 245 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2018 | 209 | 304 | 1.5 | 194 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 | 209 | 310 | 1.5 | 198 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2016 | 200 | 276 | 1.4 | 184 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2015 | 178 | 263 | 1.5 | 156 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2014 | 188 | 284 | 1.5 | 174 | 0.93 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 179 | 42.7 | 39% | 59% | – |
| 2024/25 | 189 | 43.8 | 35% | 59% | – |
| 2023/24 | 227 | 43.2 | 41% | 60% | −0.22 |
| 2022/23 | 201 | 47.2 | 44% | 73% | +0.08 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Branston Community AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · Lincolnshire20263.1applications per place 41.8Attainment 8
- 5.5 km · LincolnshireGood20234.1applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20242.2applications per place 38.8Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · LincolnshireStandards maintained202446.8Attainment 8
- 6.7 km · LincolnshireRequires improvement20242.1applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · LincolnshireRemains Good20232.3applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · LincolnshireSerious weaknesses Inadequate20221.2applications per place 40.0Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · Lincolnshire20251.8applications per place 37.3Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136358 · 925/5418
- Trust
- Branston Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,225 pupils · 1,132 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 December 2010
- Replaced
- Branston Community College (URN 120714)
- Address
- Station Road, Branston, Lincoln, LN4 1LH
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire · North Kesteven
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources