The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Fleet Wood Lane School

URN 120408 · Primary · Community school · Lincolnshire

Wood Lane, Spalding, PE12 8NN

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 11 families named Fleet Wood Lane School as their first preference, and the school made 13 offers.

That is 0.85 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 13% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 13% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.88 in 2021–2022 and 0.84 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 11 22 13 0.85
2024 21 38 25 0.84
2023 18 45 18 1.00
2022 28 51 30 0.93
2021 19 34 23 0.83
2020 14 40 18 0.78
2019 24 42 24 1.00
2018 11 35 14 0.79
2017 19 32 21 0.90
2016 19 40 20 0.95
2015 24 46 24 1.00
2014 34 49 28 1.21

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2023 to 2026202320242026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 9 June 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 23 January 2024

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Requires improvement

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 11 January 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 67.0% 8.0% 104.0 104.0
2023/24 41.0% 6.0% 101.0 99.0
2022/23 40.0% 0.0% 102.0 98.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 7.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2023/24 9.0 3.0 2.0 4.0 66.7%
2022/23 7.8 6.0 1.0 0.8 23.1%
2021/22 7.8 6.8 1.0 0.0 12.8%
2020/21 7.8 6.8 0.0 1.0 12.8%
2019/20 7.7 6.3 1.4 0.0 18.2%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Fleet Wood Lane School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.