St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Grantham, Lincolnshire·NG31 6SR
Composite score
27.3
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#13,785
National rank
#1298
In East Midlands
#225
In Lincolnshire
Top 93%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
100.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
4 first choices, 4 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
22
any preference, for 4 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a20220.8820230.8320241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put St Wulfram's National Church of England 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
144
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
37.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
31.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,736
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary School at a glance

Located in Grantham, Lincolnshire, St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 144 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 42% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 6.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year, though small year groups can make these figures swing sharply from year to year. 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 101 in reading and 100 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 4 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.3%. There are about 18.8 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. St Wulfram's National 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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