Dunholme St Chad's Church of England Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Lincolnshire·LN2 3NE
Composite score
51.3
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#6,826
National rank
#535
In East Midlands
#76
In Lincolnshire
Top 46%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
61%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
94%
32 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.07
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
75
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9020231.0020240.9520251.072026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Dunholme St Chad's 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
203
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
17.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
3.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.7%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
9.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,861
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Dunholme St Chad's Church of England Primary School

Dunholme St Chad's Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Lincolnshire, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. Around 203 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 61% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 16.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Dunholme St Chad's Church of England Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 32 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.7%. There are about 21.3 pupils per teacher. Dunholme St Chad's 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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