Fleet Wood Lane School

Community school·Primary school Spalding, Lincolnshire·PE12 8NN
Composite score
52.9
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#6,224
National rank
#475
In East Midlands
#67
In Lincolnshire
Top 42%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
67%
% achieving higher RWM
8%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
16 first choices, 17 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
33
any preference, for 17 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320221.0020230.8420240.8520250.942026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Fleet Wood Lane School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
163
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
31.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,203
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Fleet Wood Lane School at a glance

Located in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Fleet Wood Lane School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 163 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 67% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 26.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 42% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 104 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Fleet Wood Lane School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 16 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.1%. There are about 23.3 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Fleet Wood Lane School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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