The School Record

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

University Academy Long Sutton

URN 147268 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Lincolnshire

84 Little London, Spalding, PE12 9LF

Ofsted category of concern: Requires significant improvement

At its inspection on 24 March 2026 (Ofsted report card (current framework)), this school was placed in the category requires significant improvement.

Ofsted judged that one or more key areas of the school's performance needed significant improvement, while leaders had the capacity to improve. This category replaced “serious weaknesses”.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 149 families named University Academy Long Sutton as their first preference, and the school made 136 offers.

That is 1.10 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 72% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 72% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 1.07 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 6 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 149 221 136 1.10
2024 146 231 140 1.04
2023 120 202 142 0.85
2022 107 177 111 0.96
2021 95 172 115 0.83
2020 125 206 131 0.95

“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 202620232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 24 March 2026

Category of concern: Requires significant improvement

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Urgent improvement

Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Needs attention

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 26 September 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

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.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 32.40 - 41.0% 0.0%
2023/24 35.80 -0.68
likely between -0.91 and -0.44		 51.1% 0.0%
2022/23 34.60 -0.48
likely between -0.72 and -0.24		 43.9% 2.9%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

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 48.4 42.6 5.0 0.8 12.0%
2023/24 47.0 42.8 2.8 1.4 8.9%
2022/23 49.4 40.0 4.6 4.8 19.0%
2021/22 47.2 41.4 2.8 3.0 12.3%
2020/21 43.8 35.8 3.0 5.0 18.3%
2019/20 32.1 28.5 0.8 2.8 11.2%

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 secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from University Academy Long Sutton.

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.