Quadring Cowley & Brown's Primary School
Ofsted: School remains GoodVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Spalding · PE11 4SQ · Lincolnshire
Ages 4–11
- KS2100%
- Absence4.4%
- FSM19.4%
- Demand1.00
1.1 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: Not judgedURN 120556
The Donington Cowley Endowed Primary School
Voluntary controlled school · Spalding · PE11 4TR
Ages 4–11 · 259 pupils · Lincolnshire
Ofsted
Not judged
KS2 expected (RWM)
52%
Overall absence
6.8%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-03-25
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Expected standard (RWM)52%
Higher standard (RWM)7%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence6.8%
Persistent absence (10%+)21.3%
Unauthorised1.5%
- Authorised absence
- 5.2%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 3.1%
- Enrolments in measure
- 254
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
26
Places offered
26
1st-preference offers
26
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 42
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 26
- 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 fill96%
259 pupils · 270 places
- Pupils on roll
- 259
- Boys / girls
- 145 / 114
- School capacity
- 270
- Capacity fill
- 259 / 270 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 37.5%
- FSM pupils
- 97
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Federation
- Horizon Schools Federation
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sophie Foston
Location
- Address
- Towndam Lane, Donington
- Postcode
- PE11 4TR
- Town
- Spalding
- County
- Lincolnshire
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
- District
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings
- Urban/rural
- Larger 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, 259 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 37.5%.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
Cowley Academy
Ofsted: Not judgedAcademy sponsor led · Secondary
Spalding · PE11 4TF · Lincolnshire
Ages 11–16
- Att843.0
- P8-0.1
- EM5+30%
- Absence9.5%
0.3 miles away
Gosberton House Academy
Ofsted: Standards maintainedAcademy special converter
Spalding · PE11 4EW · Lincolnshire
Ages 2–11
- KS20%
- Absence11.0%
- FSM55.7%
2.7 miles away
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sophie Foston
- Telephone
- 01775820467