Ormiston Maritime Academy

Academy converter·Secondary school Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire·DN34 5AH
Composite score
41.6
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#3,069
National rank
#293
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#10
In North East Lincolnshire
Top 96%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
33.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
23%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
42%
% EBacc grade 5+
2%
EBacc average points score
2.81

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
120 first choices, 137 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
219
any preference, for 137 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.20
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9420220.8920230.8320241.0820250.882026

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

Every child who put Ormiston Maritime Academy 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
11–16
Pupils on roll
812
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
58.6%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
12.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.7%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
15.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
46.8%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,247
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
84%
82 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
79%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
0%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Ormiston Maritime Academy at a glance

Located in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, Ormiston Maritime Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 812 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 33.3, well below the national average of 46. That is down 2.8 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

23% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 42% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Ormiston Maritime Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 120 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 84% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 15.8%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 59% 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. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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