Holbeach Bank Primary Academy
URN 145734 · Primary · Academy sponsor led · Lincolnshire
Roman Bank, Spalding, PE12 8BX
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, 3 families named Holbeach Bank Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 4 offers.
No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 4 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.
| Intake | 1st preferences | All preferences | Offers made | 1st prefs per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 17 | 4 | - |
| 2024 | 9 | 23 | 10 | 0.90 |
| 2023 | 7 | 19 | 7 | - |
| 2022 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 1.00 |
| 2021 | 10 | 17 | 12 | 0.83 |
| 2020 | 4 | 15 | 8 | - |
| 2019 | 4 | 12 | 4 | - |
“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 19 October 2022
Overall effectiveness: Good
Quality of education: Good
Behaviour and attitudes: Good
Personal development: Good
Leadership and management: Good
Early years: Good
Sixth form / post-16: 9
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.
| Year | Expected standard in reading, writing & maths | Higher standard | Average reading score | Average maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 23.0% | 0.0% | 101.0 | 97.0 |
| 2023/24 | 23.0% | 0.0% | 102.0 | 100.0 |
| 2022/23 | 20.0% | 0.0% | 98.0 | 97.0 |
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 Holbeach Bank Primary Academy.
- Holbeach Primary Academy: 2.1 km (1.3 miles) south, Spalding
- The Holbeach William Stukeley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School: 2.9 km (1.8 miles) south, Spalding
- The Holbeach St Mark's Church of England Primary School: 4.1 km (2.5 miles) north-east, Spalding
- Whaplode Church of England Primary School: 4.6 km (2.8 miles) south-west, Spalding
- Fleet Wood Lane School: 4.7 km (2.9 miles) south-east, Spalding
- The John Harrox Primary School, Moulton: 6.6 km (4.1 miles) south-west, Spalding
Nearby and related
- Other schools near Holbeach Bank Primary Academy
- All schools in Lincolnshire
- Schools in the PE12 postcode district
- What data we hold
- This page as JSON: the same figures, for software that would rather not read a web page
Where these figures come from
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools. School identity, type, phase and address
Retrieved 2 September 2026 - Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information. Inspection outcomes, published monthly
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: school-level applications and offers. Preferences and offers, 2019 to 2025 intakes
Retrieved 4 September 2026 - Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment. Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school
Retrieved 4 September 2026
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.