St Bartholomews CofE Primary School
Primary · Spalding · PE11 3QJ
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 12 June 2024
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
85 pupils · 81% of 105 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 36.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 5.6% of pupils
- SEN support
- 23.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.7% of pupils
- URN
- 120551
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.07 first-choice applications per place14 places offered · 15 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
16 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
78% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 22% moved to another state school
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 12 June 2024: Requires improvement
- 3 October 2018: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.