Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn

Academy converter·Secondary school Lincolnshire·LN5 0PA
Composite score
49.7
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#2,538
National rank
#213
In East Midlands
#34
In Lincolnshire
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
39.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
28%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
53%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
3.52

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
159 first choices, 185 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
482
any preference, for 185 places
Applications from another council area
16%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.34
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320221.2320231.2820241.2020250.862026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
994
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
1.7%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.1%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
28.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,632
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
94%
159 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
83%
Apprenticeship
6%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn

Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn is a secondary school in Lincolnshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 994 pupils aged 11 to 18 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 39.8 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 3.3 points compared with 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.

28% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 53% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. 96% of the families who made Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. After Year 11, 94% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.6%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. Sir William Robertson Academy, Welbourn 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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