Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in North East Lincolnshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry356 applications · 230 places offered · 261 named it first
- 2026 1.6; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.6
- 2025 1.5; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.5; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.6
- 2023 1.4; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.5
- 2022 1.5; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2021 1.7; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2020 1.7; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2019 1.6; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.6; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2017 1.5; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.5
- 2016 1.4; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2015 2.7; North East Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2014 2.4; North East Lincolnshire median median 2.0
- This school
- North East 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 | 230 | 356 | 1.6 | 261 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2025 | 221 | 334 | 1.5 | 215 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 240 | 356 | 1.5 | 269 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2023 | 234 | 328 | 1.4 | 227 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2022 | 233 | 348 | 1.5 | 231 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2021 | 205 | 355 | 1.7 | 226 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2020 | 177 | 307 | 1.7 | 205 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2019 | 177 | 279 | 1.6 | 172 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 | 123 | 191 | 1.6 | 122 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2017 | 93 | 143 | 1.5 | 78 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2016 | 102 | 142 | 1.4 | 75 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2015 | 53 | 141 | 2.7 | 51 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2014 | 60 | 142 | 2.4 | 51 | 0.85 |
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.) | 170 | 50.0 | 58% | 76% | – |
| 2024/25 | 159 | 48.1 | 57% | 72% | – |
| 2023/24 | 154 | 46.9 | 43% | 66% | +0.22 |
| 2022/23 | 130 | 47.5 | 39% | 62% | +0.15 |
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
- John Whitgift AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 50.0Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · North East LincolnshireGood20241.8applications per place 48.1Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · North East LincolnshireGood20221.6applications per place 30.9Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · North East LincolnshireRemains Good20231.7applications per place 35.6Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · North East LincolnshireGood20231.2applications per place 37.3Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · North East LincolnshireSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 30.3Attainment 8
- 6.6 km · North East LincolnshireGood20231.5applications per place 47.6Attainment 8
- 6.8 km · North East LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · North East Lincolnshire20261.2applications per place 39.1Attainment 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
- 137464 · 812/4011
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 998 pupils · 1,070 on roll
- Free school meals
- 39.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2011
- Replaced
- Whitgift School (URN 118067)
- Address
- Crosland Road, Grimsby, DN37 9EH
- Local authority
- North East Lincolnshire
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources