Boston High School
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Spalding Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,486of 1,820 places
- Free school meals
- 30.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 266
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 2 April 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Sir John Gleed School (URN 139168, until 1 September 2016).
What the data says
Of the 257 pupils who finished Year 11 at Spalding Academy in 2023, 21% stayed on in Spalding Academy’s own sixth form (Lincolnshire average 40%), 61% went to a further education college and 5% started an apprenticeship.
Business Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 55% of the year group took it, against 18% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 45.3 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Lincolnshire, with 31% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Languages are a small part of the curriculum here: entries in French and Spanish add up to 7% of the year group, and 15% of pupils entered the full EBacc set of subjects (England 41%).
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 | Spalding Academy | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 257 | 8,198 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 83% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 21% | 40% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | 4% | 13% |
| — further education college | 61% | 41% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
Where students went after sixth form
Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.
No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Spalding Academy | Lincolnshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 45.3 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 31% | 42% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 52% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 15% | 37% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.60 | 3.98 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 23% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 38.0 | 33.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 47.4 | 49.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 37% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 265 | 100% | 89% | 9% | 20% | 62% |
| Mathematics | 265 | 100% | 88% | 6% | 22% | 58% |
| English Literature | 265 | 100% | 86% | 10% | 21% | 62% |
| Combined Science | 245 | 92% | 65% | 2% | 9% | 48% |
| Geography | 158 | 59% | 41% | 6% | 25% | 49% |
| Business Studies | 145 | 55% | 18% | 12% | 20% | 58% |
| History | 128 | 48% | 41% | 20% | 26% | 63% |
| Religious Studies | 79 | 30% | 31% | 20% | 32% | 78% |
| Fine Art | 67 | 25% | 9% | 21% | 28% | 69% |
| 3D Design | 59 | 22% | 2% | 12% | 16% | 64% |
| Polish | 26 | 10% | 1% | 65% | 84% | 92% |
| Statistics | 26 | 10% | 5% | 19% | 20% | 88% |
| Chemistry | 20 | 8% | 23% | 35% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 20 | 8% | 23% | 40% | 45% | 100% |
| Physics | 20 | 8% | 23% | 25% | 46% | 95% |
| French | 15 | 6% | 18% | 20% | 29% | 87% |
| Russian | 5 | 2% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Portuguese | 4 | 2% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Spanish | 3 | 1% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 77 | — | — |
| Sports / Movement Science | 70 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 60 | — | — |
| Tourism | 56 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 51 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 30 | — | — |
Where Spalding Academy 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
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88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.2
Bourne Grammar School
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97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 68.6
Branston Community Academy
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89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.8
Caistor Grammar School
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97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 69.8
Caistor Yarborough Academy
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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.