Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

Lincoln Christ’s Hospital School is a caring, welcoming 11–18 secondary comprehensive and single-academy trust. Inspectors found it performing well across the key areas, with good provision in education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and the sixth form. The school has high expectations and a broad, ambitious curriculum; most pupils, including those with SEND, achieve well, and sixth-form students also achieve well. Safeguarding is effective.

Strengths

• Caring and welcoming school community
• Pupils enjoy learning and feel well supported
• High expectations and a broad, ambitious curriculum
• Curriculum is well sequenced to build on prior learning
• Effective action has improved how the curriculum is taught
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge and useful training
• Most teachers check understanding and address gaps quickly
• SEND needs are identified accurately and supported effectively
• Well-thought-out reading support helps pupils read well
• Calm, orderly environment with positive staff-pupil relationships
• Attendance is improving and suspensions are reducing
• Strong personal development and careers provision
• Sixth-form students achieve well and are well prepared for next steps
• Staff are proud to work at the school and governance is effective

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not spell key words correctly or use punctuation accurately
• Some teachers do not consistently address pupils' spelling and punctuation errors
• Expectations for the quality of pupils' written work are not consistently high

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School attended 90.4% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 26.0% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 7.5% of pupils at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 9 pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Lincoln Christ's Hospital School had 16.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 17.7% of pupils at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 4.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Lincoln Christ's Hospital School received £8,554 and spent £8,371 for each of its 1,269 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £982,000 (£774 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Lincoln Christ's Hospital School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Lincoln Christ's Hospital School is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Lincoln Christ's Hospital School last inspected by Ofsted?

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Lincoln Christ's Hospital School have?

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School has 1,275 pupils on roll.

What age range does Lincoln Christ's Hospital School cover?

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Lincoln Christ's Hospital School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 38.8, and 32% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Lincoln Christ's Hospital School?

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School is at Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 4PN.