Spalding Grammar School

Priory Road
Spalding
Lincs
PE11 2XH

Spalding Grammar School

1. Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children, including those who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.
2. Children who live in the designated transport area for the School, defined as Spalding and the feeder Parishes of South Lincolnshire, listed below. (If numbers still exceed 150, then the aggregate score of 220 will be raised in order to contain the number of admissions).
3. Children who live outside Spalding and the feeder parishes.

If fewer than 150 from Spalding and the Feeder Parishes qualify, then those who live outside Spalding and the Feeder Parishes who qualify will be considered in score order (highest first) until the limit of 150 is reached.

In the event of two or more boys having the same aggregate score then places will be offered to the boy who lives nearest to the school measured by straight line distance.

If distance is not sufficient to distinguish between applicants for the last place then a lottery will be conducted.

Feeder parishes: Algarkirk, Cowbit, Crowland, Deeping St Nicholas, Fleet, Fosdyke, Gedney, Gedney Hill, Gosberton, Holbeach, Little Sutton, Long Sutton, Lutton, Moulton, Pinchbeck, Quadring, Spalding, Surfleet, Sutterton, Sutton Bridge, Sutton St Edmund, Sutton St James, Tydd St Mary, Weston, Whaplode, Wigtoft

There are entrance exams for admission into a grammar school. Details about the testing arrangements can be obtained from the school.

This is a grammar school and applicants must meet the required standard in the admissions exam to be allocated a place. See the school’s full admissions policy for more information.

1. Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children, including those who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in care as a result of being adopted.
2. Children who live in the designated transport area for the School, defined as Spalding and the feeder Parishes of South Lincolnshire, listed below. (If numbers still exceed 150, then the aggregate score of 220 will be raised in order to contain the number of admissions).
3. Children who live outside Spalding and the feeder parishes.

If fewer than 150 from Spalding and the Feeder Parishes qualify, then those who live outside Spalding and the Feeder Parishes who qualify will be considered in score order (highest first) until the limit of 150 is reached.

In the event of two or more boys having the same aggregate score then places will be offered to the boy who lives nearest to the school measured by straight line distance.

If distance is not sufficient to distinguish between applicants for the last place then a lottery will be conducted.

Feeder parishes: Algarkirk, Cowbit, Crowland, Deeping St Nicholas, Fleet, Fosdyke, Gedney, Gedney Hill, Gosberton, Holbeach, Little Sutton, Long Sutton, Lutton, Moulton, Pinchbeck, Quadring, Spalding, Surfleet, Sutterton, Sutton Bridge, Sutton St Edmund, Sutton St James, Tydd St Mary, Weston, Whaplode, Wigtoft

There are entrance exams for admission into a grammar school. Details about the testing arrangements can be obtained from the school.

This is a grammar school and applicants must meet the required standard in the admissions exam to be allocated a place. See the school’s full admissions policy for more information.

Year 11 students at this School have the right to transfer to our Year 12 provided that they meet the academic standards set out below and provided that the School can offer the preferred subject or combination of subjects in an efficient and effective manner. The Sixth Form prospectus gives full details of the subjects and courses on offer and any individual entry requirements.

We also welcome applications from students attending other schools and have set an admission number of 60 for these applications.

When we do not offer a place in the Sixth Form the student and their parents both have the right of appeal to the Governors if they feel our admissions criteria have not been applied fairly.

Sometimes we may be able to offer a place in Year 12, but not for the student’s preferred combination of subjects (in this case there is no right of appeal, as a place has been offered within the Sixth Form).

Students may join the Sixth Form after courses have begun, provided they meet the entry requirements, there is room in the subjects they are requesting, and there is a suitable match between the courses they have already begun and those offered by the School.

Our Year 12 is normally around 150 students; the Sixth Form as a whole is usually 300 in total.

Admission to Sixth Form courses is open to all students, male and female, and is dependent upon students achieving at least six grades 4 or higher at GCSE, including Maths and English Language or English Literature. This is the general entry requirement.

Subjects being continued to A level should be grade 5 or higher. That said, some subjects have additional expectations.  

Students wishing to undertake subjects not previously studied should have a grade 5 or higher in a related subject.

Where the Sixth Form or an individual subject is oversubscribed, the following oversubscription criteria will be used:

Applicants with an EHCP that names the School, and those in (or who have ever been in) local authority care, will be given priority provided they meet both the general and subject specific entry requirements.

1. Students currently studying at the School
2. Applicants living in Spalding or in the feeder Parishes of South Lincolnshire listed in the Appendix (“the Feeder Parishes”) which is shown in the schools full policy.
3. Priority will be given to the most qualified applicants in rank ordering according to:

First, according to the grades predicted in the applicant’s chosen subjects (or, for those subjects not previously studied, a related subject as specified in the subject’s information sheet).

Secondly, according to the average points score predicted across all GCSE subjects taken by the applicant.

School admissions arrangements

Lodge an admissions appeal: Spalding Grammar School appeal

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