Gipsey Bridge Academy
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy converter · Primary
Boston · PE22 7BP · Lincolnshire
Ages 5–11
- KS224%
- Absence4.0%
- FSM24.7%
- Demand1.00
2.2 miles away
Open, but proposed to closePrimaryOfsted: Requires improvementURN 146586
Frithville Primary School
Academy converter · Boston · PE22 7EX
Ages 5–11 · 35 pupils · Lincolnshire
Ofsted
Requires improvement
Overall absence
6.9%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2023-07-13
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.9%
Persistent absence (10%+)18.2%
Unauthorised1.5%
- Authorised absence
- 5.3%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 33
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
2
Places offered
2
1st-preference offers
2
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 12
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 2
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
Capacity fill50%
35 pupils · 70 places
- Pupils on roll
- 35
- Boys / girls
- 14 / 21
- School capacity
- 70
- Capacity fill
- 35 / 70 (50%)
- Free school meals
- 68.6%
- FSM pupils
- 24
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 5–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: HORNCASTLE EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- HORNCASTLE EDUCATION TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mr Damian Davey
Location
- Address
- West Fen Drainside, Frithville
- Postcode
- PE22 7EX
- Town
- Boston
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
- District
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 5–11, in Boston, Lincolnshire, 35 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 68.6%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
The Sibsey Free Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Boston · PE22 0RR · Lincolnshire
Ages 4–11
- KS285%
- Absence4.7%
- FSM15.6%
- Demand0.94
2.3 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Damian Davey
- Telephone
- 01205750291