Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Lincolnshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years 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 entry70 applications · 38 places offered · 38 named it first
- 2026 1.8; Lincolnshire median median 2.0
- 2025 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2023 1.4; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2022 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2021 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2016 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2015 1.8; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.3; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- This school
- Lincolnshire median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 38 | 70 | 1.8 | 38 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 41 | 66 | 1.6 | 39 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 | 37 | 58 | 1.6 | 37 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 56 | 80 | 1.4 | 55 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2022 | 46 | 71 | 1.5 | 46 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 48 | 71 | 1.5 | 48 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 56 | 86 | 1.5 | 53 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 56 | 89 | 1.6 | 54 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 | 60 | 95 | 1.6 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 59 | 96 | 1.6 | 55 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2016 | 60 | 95 | 1.6 | 59 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 | 60 | 106 | 1.8 | 67 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2014 | 60 | 79 | 1.3 | 49 | 0.82 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Gainsborough Hillcrest Early Years AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place
- 0.1 km · LincolnshireGood202230%met the SATs standard
- 0.2 km · LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20252.9applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · LincolnshireGood20231.6applications per place 40%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Lincolnshire20261.6applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Lincolnshire20262.1applications per place 49%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · LincolnshireGood20241.6applications per place 40%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · LincolnshireGood20222.4applications per place 29%met the SATs standard
- 2.7 km · LincolnshireRemains Good20231.9applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 138330 · 925/2208
- Trust
- Hillcrest Early Years Academy Limited
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 231 on roll
- Free school meals
- 48.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 July 2012
- Replaced
- The Gainsborough Hillcrest Community Infant and Nursery School (URN 120490)
- Address
- Heapham Road, Gainsborough, DN21 1SW
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire · West Lindsey
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources