Current school catchment (priority, designated or normal) area boundaries for Lincolnshire

Request

1. Please send me the current school catchment (priority, designated or normal) area boundaries for Lincolnshire, for admission in September 2027, as GIS data (Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, ideally in British National Grid or WGS84), with the name and DfE number (URN or LAESTAB) of the school each area belongs to.

I am asking because the boundaries are currently published only as maps in documents or an online lookup, which cannot be reused accurately. If a file is already held for the council's own map viewer, that will do. If any area is not held digitally, please say which.

Decision

Within School Admissions we don't use 'catchment areas' for schools, therefore we don't hold this information.

A few schools do use a 'catchment area' as part of their admission criteria but this is invariably their 'DTA' - designated transport area. The school transport team will hold the 'DTAs' for each school if this is what is required, but this is not what is considered the catchment area for schools as a whole.

Reference number
18421209
Date request received
13/10/2026
Date of decision
16/10/2026