St Helena's Church of England Primary Academy, Willoughby
Primary · Alford · LN13 9NH
SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection
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Inspected 8 July 2025
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145 pupils · 104% of 140 capacity (over capacity)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 152023
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.89 first-choice applications per place18 places offered · 16 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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.
Compare admissions across the area: Alford school admissions · Lincolnshire school admissions
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
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.
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 3/10more 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 | 19.7% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 29.1% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 24.9% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 21.5% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 36.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 78% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 6.7% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 15.2% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 76.4% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 1.6% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 24.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 7.8% | 23.5% |
Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01026113 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,772 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.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0a rural school averages 0.3
- Collisions at school-run times
- 0a rural school averages 0.7
- All reported collisions
- 1a rural school averages 3.4
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 1a rural school averages 0.9
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 rural schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby schools
- Alford Primary School
- John Spendluffe Foundation Technology College
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective Academy
- Huttoft Primary & Nursery School
- Partney Church of England Aided Primary School
- The St Peter and St Paul C of E Primary School
- Great Steeping Primary School
- Halton Holegate CofE Primary School