Healing Academy
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Secondary
Grimsby · DN41 7QD · North East Lincolnshire
Ages 11–16
- Att847.9
- P8-0.0
- EM5+51%
- Absence7.1%
1.3 miles away
OpenSecondaryOfsted: Not judgedURN 137464
John Whitgift Academy
Academy converter · Grimsby · DN37 9EH
Ages 11–16 · 1,070 pupils · North East Lincolnshire
Ofsted
Not judged
Attainment 8
46.9
Overall absence
5.9%
Admissions demand
1.12 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-06-03
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
Progress 8+0.22
−20+2
Attainment 846.9
English & maths grade 5+43%
English & maths grade 4+66%
EBacc entry45%
EBacc APS: 4.2
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence5.9%
Persistent absence (10%+)17.2%
Unauthorised2.4%
- Authorised absence
- 3.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 1,040
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for secondary 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
1.12 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
269
Places offered
240
1st-preference offers
237
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 356
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 240
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
- Admissions policy (GIAS)
- Non-selective
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 fill107%
1,070 pupils · 998 places
- Pupils on roll
- 1,070
- Boys / girls
- 534 / 536
- School capacity
- 998
- Capacity fill
- 1,070 / 998 (107%)
- Free school meals
- 39.2%
- FSM pupils
- 419
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 11–16
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: DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST
- Academy trust
- DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST
- Sponsor
- Delta Academies Trust
- Headteacher
- Mr Robert Spendlow
Location
- Address
- Crosland Road
- Postcode
- DN37 9EH
- Town
- Grimsby
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Local authority
- North East Lincolnshire
- District
- North East Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to 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 (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, 1,070 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 39.2%.
Nearby secondary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Ormiston Maritime Academy
Ofsted: GoodAcademy converter · Secondary
Grimsby · DN34 5AH · North East Lincolnshire
Ages 11–16
- Att836.1
- P8-0.8
- EM5+29%
- Absence15.8%
1.7 miles away
Oasis Academy Wintringham
Ofsted: School remains GoodAcademy sponsor led · Secondary
Grimsby · DN32 0AZ · North East Lincolnshire
Ages 11–16
- Att836.5
- P8-0.7
- EM5+24%
- Absence14.9%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Robert Spendlow
- Telephone
- 01472311080