William Lovell Church of England Academy
Secondary · Boston · PE22 8AA
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 March 2026 · report published 20 May 2026
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347 pupils · 77% of 450 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 52.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 10.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 34.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 7% of pupils
- Website
- https://williamlovell.co.uk
- URN
- 138756
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.75 first-choice applications per place63 places offered · 47 first-choice applications · usually has places
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.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
55 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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)
93% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% 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, academy 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 March 2026: Urgent improvement
- 10 October 2023: Requires improvement
- 26 February 2020: Requires improvement
- 10 September 2019: Schools into Special Measures Visit 2
- 20 November 2018: School is not taking effective action towards the removal of special measures
- 23 January 2018: Inadequate
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.