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Secondary school in Skegness, Lincolnshire

Skegness Academy

Burgh Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE25 2QH

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01754879122

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 6 December 2023

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 6 December 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

30.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

5% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

30% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

3% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.64confidence interval -0.84 to -0.43

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D-
Average points per entry
17.6

England average 32.3

A level students
13

Pupils

Pupils on roll
939
Places
1340
How full
70% full — 939 of 1340 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
498 / 441
Overall absence
12%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
40%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
65%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
5%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
7%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
27%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
81%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
75%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
19%
No sustained destination
17%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
149

After sixth form

Went to university
27%

England 50%

In education, work or training
80%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
11%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
44

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

0% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
31%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
67

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for East Lindsey 012A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
16%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
31%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
57%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
12%

England 17%

Households with no car
30%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
49%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
GREENWOOD ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Lead Principal: Claudio Gissendorf
Local authority
Lincolnshire
Ward
St Clement's
Constituency
Boston and Skegness
URN
136217

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Skegness Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2021 52 0.2 mi
John Spendluffe Foundation Technology CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 36.2 9.6 mi
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford - A Selective AcademyAcademy converter Good 2021 60.5 9.9 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Harris Academy BatterseaAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2023 49.8
Dixons Croxteth AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 31.6
Astrea Academy SheffieldFree schools Good 2022 45.4
Manchester Enterprise AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 37.5
The Albion AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 47.4
The Royal Harbour AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2020 28.9
Whalley Range 11-18 High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 52.1
Park Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 28.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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