Mount Street Academy

Mount Street Academy is a warm and welcoming infant school where pupils are happy, behave well and achieve well. Leaders have high expectations, relationships are built on kindness and respect, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The curriculum is ambitious and carefully sequenced, teaching is skilled, pupils with SEND are identified promptly and supported well, and reading and phonics are a clear priority. Personal development and early years provision are particular strengths, with a bespoke enrichment offer and highly engaged children.

Strengths

• Warm, welcoming culture with strong care and safety
• Pupils are happy, behave well and are eager to learn
• High expectations for all pupils from early years onwards
• Ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum across subjects
• Skilled teachers explain learning clearly
• Pupils with SEND are identified promptly and supported effectively
• Early years provision is precise, engaging and highly effective
• Reading and phonics are a key priority and pupils become confident readers
• Exceptional bespoke personal development offer
• Trust plays an active role and staff appreciate supportive leaders
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• The approach to developing pupils' speaking and listening skills is not fully effective
• Some pupils, including a growing number with English as an additional language, struggle to communicate as well as they could
• Plans to develop speaking and listening across the school need to be effectively implemented and have the intended impact
• The Anthem Community Council's capacity to complete delegated responsibilities is not yet securely embedded
• Recent local oversight changes still need to provide the assurances required by the trust

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 Mount Street Academy attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

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, 1.6% of pupils at Mount Street Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No 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 Mount Street Academy had 20.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

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 Mount Street Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Mount Street Academy received £7,165 and spent £7,730 for each of its 313 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £88,000 (£282 per pupil).

Across all 15 schools of Anthem Schools Trust, income was £8,162 and spending £8,134 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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All schools in Lincoln · Lincolnshire local authority: places and applications

Mount Street Academy is part of Anthem Schools Trust, which runs 15 schools. The nearest others:

• Lincoln Carlton Academy Lincoln
• Benjamin Adlard Primary School Gainsborough
• Boston West Academy Boston
• The Deepings School Peterborough
• Grampian Primary Academy Derby
• Queensbury Academy Dunstable
• Oxford Spires Academy Oxford
• Abbey Woods Academy Wallingford
• Gladstone Park Primary School London
• Abacus Belsize Primary School London

What is Mount Street Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Mount Street Academy is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was Mount Street Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Mount Street Academy was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does Mount Street Academy have?

Mount Street Academy has 294 pupils on roll.

What age range does Mount Street Academy cover?

Mount Street Academy for pupils aged 3 to 7.

Where is Mount Street Academy?

Mount Street Academy is at Mount Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 3JG.