Graded inspection · Jun 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry220 applications · 115 places offered · 79 named it first
- 2026 1.9; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2025 2.2; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2024 2.1; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2022 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.8; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2019 2.0; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2018 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2017 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2016 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2015 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; Lincolnshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Lincolnshire median
Dashed bars: as Middlecott School (URN 120643), the previous school.
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 | 115 | 220 | 1.9 | 79 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2025 | 114 | 246 | 2.2 | 121 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2024 | 110 | 225 | 2.1 | 98 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2023 | 118 | 196 | 1.7 | 91 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2022 | 119 | 197 | 1.7 | 88 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2021 | 120 | 191 | 1.6 | 75 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2020 | 115 | 211 | 1.8 | 86 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2019 | 104 | 207 | 2.0 | 77 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2018 | 108 | 188 | 1.7 | 96 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2017 | 86 | 148 | 1.7 | 79 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2016 | 79 | 127 | 1.6 | 66 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2015 * | 81 | 126 | 1.6 | 75 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2014 * | 77 | 138 | 1.8 | 65 | 0.84 |
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.) | 115 | 27.6 | 6% | 25% | – |
| 2024/25 | 102 | 32.1 | 16% | 35% | – |
| 2023/24 | 103 | 29.1 | 11% | 25% | −0.78 |
| 2022/23 | 101 | 29.6 | 6% | 23% | −0.98 |
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
- Thomas Middlecott AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 27.6Attainment 8
- 6.2 km · Lincolnshire20261.6applications per place 54.7Attainment 8 Selective
- 7.4 km · LincolnshireSpecial measures 20261.5applications per place 32.6Attainment 8
- 7.9 km · LincolnshireRemains Good20242.0applications per place 56.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 9.6 km · LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20252.9applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 13.7 km · LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 38.7Attainment 8
- 15.8 km · LincolnshireGood20232.5applications per place 39.6Attainment 8
- 16.3 km · LincolnshireStandards maintained20251.9applications per place 44.1Attainment 8
- 16.6 km · LincolnshireOutstanding20232.0applications per place 62.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 141391 · 925/4013
- Capacity
- 540 pupils · 612 on roll
- Free school meals
- 41.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2015
- Replaced
- Middlecott School (URN 120643)
- Address
- Edinburgh Drive, Kirton, Boston, PE20 1JS
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire · Boston
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources