St Peter's CofE Primary School

St Peter's CofE Primary School is a small Church of England primary in the Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust, serving a disadvantaged area with a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals. Inspectors found the school generally fulfilling expected standards, with safeguarding met. Curriculum and teaching, early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing were all found to be at the expected standard. Pupils are happy, feel safe and behave well, and leaders have created calm routines and strong pastoral support, including effective work for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and vulnerable families.

Strengths

• Leaders provide a coherent curriculum direction supported by the trust's consistent framework and high expectations.
• Teachers explain new ideas clearly, check understanding and revisit important knowledge.
• Staff use precise vocabulary and retrieval practice to help pupils make connections.
• Planned adjustments help pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities access the full curriculum.
• Recent phonics refresher training has sharpened the teaching of early reading.
• The early years environment is attractive and well resourced, with purposeful play and secure welfare arrangements.
• Phonics is taught systematically, with additional practice for children who need it.
• Inclusion work is timely and well supported by pupil passports, targeted interventions and specialist advice.
• Pastoral staff work closely with families and external agencies to support vulnerable pupils.
• Pupils behave well, arrive calmly, follow routines and build respectful relationships.
• The personal development programme teaches safety, healthy relationships, online risks and British values.
• Leaders treat staff fairly, provide effective coaching and consider wellbeing and workload.
• Governance and trust reviews provide clear oversight and challenge.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture in which concerns are identified and acted upon.

Areas for Improvement

• Pupils' achievement remains uneven, and attainment at the end of key stage 2 remains below national patterns.
• Mathematics attainment has not improved in the same way as reading and writing.
• Too few pupils attain the higher standard, particularly in reading and mathematics.
• Phonics attainment shows fewer pupils securing the knowledge needed to read unfamiliar words confidently.
• Disadvantaged pupils' attainment has improved but remains below that of other pupils nationally.
• Attendance has been too low over time and remains below national trends.
• Persistent absence is reducing but remains high, especially for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Leaders' use of attendance information is not yet precise enough to show whether improvement is sustained across all groups.
• Some pupils have gaps in mathematical and early reading knowledge that limit how well they achieve.
• Leaders' approaches are improving learning but have not yet secured consistently positive achievement across the curriculum.

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 St Peter's CofE Primary School attended 92.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 30.1% 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, 3.4% of pupils at St Peter's CofE Primary School 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 St Peter's CofE Primary School had 16.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 8.7% of pupils at St Peter's CofE Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.7% 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 St Peter's CofE Primary School received £7,546 and spent £7,773 for each of its 175 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £161,000 (£921 per pupil).

Across all 24 schools of Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust, income was £7,689 and spending £7,482 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 Cleethorpes · North East Lincolnshire local authority: places and applications

St Peter's CofE Primary School is part of Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust, which runs 24 schools. The nearest others:

• East Ravendale CofE Primary School Academy Grimsby
• The Canon Peter Hall CofE Primary School Immingham
• Ulceby St Nicholas Church of England Primary School Ulceby
• Wrawby St Mary's CofE Primary School Brigg
• Branston Church of England Infant Academy Lincoln
• Tattershall Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School Lincoln
• Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School Lincoln
• William Lovell Church of England Academy Boston
• The Gainsborough Parish Church Primary School Gainsborough
• The Wainfleet Magdalen Church of England/Methodist School Skegness

What is St Peter's CofE Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Peter's CofE Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in October 2026.

When was St Peter's CofE Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

St Peter's CofE Primary School was last inspected in October 2026.

How many pupils does St Peter's CofE Primary School have?

St Peter's CofE Primary School has 149 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Peter's CofE Primary School cover?

St Peter's CofE Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are St Peter's CofE Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 50% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is St Peter's CofE Primary School?

St Peter's CofE Primary School is at Cambridge Street, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, DN35 8LW.