St Thomas CofE Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Boston, Lincolnshire·PE21 7RZ
Composite score
50.3
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#7,148
National rank
#574
In East Midlands
#82
In Lincolnshire
Top 48%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
63%
% achieving higher RWM
8%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
40 first choices, 40 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
98
any preference, for 40 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.8620231.0020241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put St Thomas CofE Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
415
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
27.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
27.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.6%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
28.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,412
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

St Thomas CofE Primary Academy is a primary school serving Boston, Lincolnshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 415 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 63% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 6.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 8% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Thomas CofE Primary Academy their first choice was offered one of its 40 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 28.0 pupils per teacher. St Thomas CofE Primary 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.

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