Partney Church of England Aided Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Spilsby, Lincolnshire·PE23 4PX
Composite score
7.2
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#14,773
National rank
#1416
In East Midlands
#250
In Lincolnshire
Top 100%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
11%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
96.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
97.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
11 first choices, 12 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
23
any preference, for 12 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.8620231.0820240.8620250.922026

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

Every child who put Partney Church of England Aided Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
68
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
38.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
32.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
12.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£11,403
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Partney Church of England Aided Primary School at a glance

Located in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, Partney Church of England Aided Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 68 pupils aged 3 to 11. 11% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 96 in reading and 97 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Partney Church of England Aided Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 12 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 9.2%. There are about 12.1 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 38% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Partney Church of England Aided 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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