Skegness Infant Academy

Academy converter·Infant school Skegness, Lincolnshire·PE25 2QU

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Skegness Infant Academy is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

55 first choices, 64 places

First choices per place

0.86

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 64 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.7520220.8720230.9520240.8920250.862026

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

Every child who put Skegness Infant 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 291
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

56.5%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

8.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

6.5%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

18.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,550

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Skegness Junior Academy Skegness · 0.1 mi 36.6 Beacon Primary Academy Skegness · 0.6 mi 45.5 The Richmond Primary Academy Skegness · 0.6 mi 37.2 Seathorne Primary Academy Skegness · 1.1 mi 50.6 Ingoldmells Academy Skegness · 3.3 mi 47.4 The St Peter and St Paul C of E Primary School Skegness · 4.1 mi 45.8 The Wainfleet Magdalen Church of England/Methodist School Skegness · 5.1 mi 44.6 Chapel St Leonards Primary School Skegness · 5.2 mi 24.7

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Skegness Infant Academy at a glance

Located in Skegness, Lincolnshire, Skegness Infant Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 291 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Skegness Infant Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 55 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 19.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 56% 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. Skegness Infant Academy 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.