Barrowby Church of England Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Grantham, Lincolnshire·NG32 1BX
Composite score
65.4
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#2,560
National rank
#169
In East Midlands
#19
In Lincolnshire
Top 17%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
79%
% achieving higher RWM
12%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
97%
35 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
1.03
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
83
any preference, for 34 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.35
00.511.52
1 per place
0.9720221.6820231.1220241.3820251.032026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Barrowby Church of England Primary School yet. Lincolnshire does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
240
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.3%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
2.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
1.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,312
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Barrowby Church of England Primary School at a glance

Located in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Barrowby Church of England Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 240 pupils aged 4 to 11. 79% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 3.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 17% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 12% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Barrowby Church of England Primary School is oversubscribed: about 10 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 35 first choices for 34 places. Overall pupil absence was 2.4%. There are about 25.0 pupils per teacher. Barrowby Church of England Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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