St Bartholomews CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school · Spalding · PE11 3QJ
Ages 4–11 · 85 pupils · Lincolnshire
Ofsted
Requires improvement
KS2 expected (RWM)
50%
Overall absence
5.5%
Admissions demand
0.89 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2024-06-12
- 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)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 100.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 105.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.1%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 85
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
0.89 · Often has places
1st preferences
8
Places offered
10
1st-preference offers
8
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 21
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 9
- 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).
85 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 85
- Boys / girls
- 42 / 43
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 85 / 105 (81%)
- Free school meals
- 36.5%
- FSM pupils
- 31
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Lincoln
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sophie Farrar
Location
- Address
- Leaveslake Drove, West Pinchbeck
- Postcode
- PE11 3QJ
- Town
- Spalding
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
- District
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings
- 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 voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, 85 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 36.5%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Lincoln.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sophie Farrar
- Telephone
- 01775640357