Graded inspection · Jul 2024 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry68 applications · 35 places offered · 33 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.9; Lincolnshire median median 2.0
- 2025 1.8; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2023 1.9; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2022 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2021 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2020 2.1; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2019 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.5; Lincolnshire median median 1.8
- 2017 2.2; Lincolnshire median median 1.9
- 2016 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.7; Lincolnshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 1.6; Lincolnshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Lincolnshire median
Dashed bars: as The Branston Church of England Infant School (URN 120516), the previous school.
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 | 35 | 68 | 1.9 | 33 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2025 | 44 | 81 | 1.8 | 47 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2024 | 45 | 75 | 1.7 | 46 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2023 | 44 | 82 | 1.9 | 45 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2022 | 45 | 70 | 1.6 | 49 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2021 | 38 | 63 | 1.7 | 35 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 | 35 | 72 | 2.1 | 32 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2019 | 44 | 71 | 1.6 | 41 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 39 | 60 | 1.5 | 39 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 25 | 55 | 2.2 | 24 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 * | 31 | 53 | 1.7 | 30 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 * | 33 | 57 | 1.7 | 32 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2014 * | 40 | 64 | 1.6 | 39 | 0.98 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Branston Church of England Infant AcademyThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20241.9applications per place
- 0.9 km · LincolnshireRemains Good202357%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · LincolnshireGood20232.0applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 2.9 km · LincolnshireRemains Good20232.1applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 3.8 km · LincolnshireGood20231.7applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 4.2 km · LincolnshireRemains Good20232.2applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 4.5 km · Lincolnshire20261.5applications per place 45%met the SATs standard
- 4.5 km · LincolnshireGood20232.4applications per place 61%met the SATs standard
- 4.7 km · LincolnshireGraded · no overall grade20241.3applications per place 65%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
- 144122 · 925/3009
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 135 pupils · 132 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 July 2017
- Replaced
- The Branston Church of England Infant School (URN 120516)
- Address
- Beech Road, Valley Estate, Branston, Lincoln, LN4 1PR
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire · North Kesteven
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources