Acorn Free School
Special / other · Lincoln · LN5 9TL
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade. No graded inspection appears in Ofsted's records for this school since 2015 either, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Any earlier grade is on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 22 January 2025
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1 pupils · 2% of 52 capacity
- School type
- Free schools alternative provision
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 0% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 0% of pupils
- Website
- www.theacornschool.co.uk
- URN
- 139774
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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.
Inspection history since 2015
- 21 January 2025: Standards maintained
- 8 October 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
- 11 February 2016: S8 No Formal Designation Visit
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 6/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 7/10less deprived than most of England
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 20.8% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 18.1% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 24.8% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 9.8% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 46% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 88.6% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 10.5% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 51.8% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 0.6% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 20.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 12.2% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01026138 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,202 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £205,000219 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
- Typical range
- £175,000–£250,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 1an urban school averages 5.8
- All reported collisions
- 4an urban school averages 30.6
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0an urban school averages 6.1
Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.