The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Spalding, Lincolnshire·PE12 6AE
Composite score
32.5
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#12,879
National rank
#1206
In East Midlands
#206
In Lincolnshire
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
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
92%
13 first choices, 12 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
34
any preference, for 12 places
Applications from another council area
3%

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England 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
87
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
26.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
9.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

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

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Location

The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England Academy at a glance

Located in Spalding, Lincolnshire, The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 87 pupils aged 4 to 11. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 17.0 percentage points compared with 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 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England Academy is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 13 first choices for 12 places. The Cowbit St Mary's Church of England 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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