Lutton St Nicholas Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Spalding, Lincolnshire·PE12 9HN
Composite score
39.0
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#11,227
National rank
#1006
In East Midlands
#169
In Lincolnshire
Top 76%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
98.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
75%
20 first choices, 15 places
First choices per place
1.33
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
37
any preference, for 15 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.40
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8620220.7120230.8720240.9320251.332026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Lutton St Nicholas Primary Academy 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
103
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
1.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,922
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Lutton St Nicholas Primary Academy is a primary school serving Spalding, Lincolnshire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 103 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 60% 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 13.0 percentage points year on 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 102 in reading and 98 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Lutton St Nicholas Primary Academy is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 20 first choices for 15 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 23.6 pupils per teacher. Lutton St Nicholas 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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