Boston High School
Academy converter · sixth form · 837 pupils
95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.8
Community special school
Athena School
- Pupils on roll
- 112of 115 places
- Free school meals
- 62.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 23
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 12 February 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Of the 16 pupils who finished Year 11 at Athena School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 69% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
19% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Athena School is a special school: its GCSE figures (Attainment 8 of 6.0, 0% with grade 5 or above in English and maths) are published by DfE for completeness and are not comparable with mainstream schools.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lincolnshire and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Athena School | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 16 | 8,198 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 75% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 75% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 0% | 40% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 4% | 13% |
| — further education college | 69% | 41% | 37% |
| — other education | 6% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 19% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 6% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Athena School | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 6.0 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 0% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 0% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 0% | 37% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 0.61 | 3.98 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 70% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 5.7 | 33.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 6.7 | 49.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 0% | 12% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 14 | 61% | 88% | 0% | 22% | 14% |
| Combined Science | 14 | 61% | 65% | 0% | 9% | 7% |
| English Language | 13 | 57% | 89% | 0% | 20% | 0% |
| Physical Education | 5 | 22% | 11% | — | 24% | — |
| English Literature | 2 | 9% | 86% | — | 21% | — |
Where Athena School is
Other secondary schools in Lincolnshire are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Lincolnshire’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Lincolnshire
Bourne Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,573 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.2
Bourne Grammar School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,718 pupils
97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 68.6
Branston Community Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,132 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Caistor Grammar School
Academy converter · sixth form · 690 pupils
97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 69.8
Caistor Yarborough Academy
Academy converter · 680 pupils
81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.