Edward Heneage Primary Academy

About Edward Heneage Primary Academy

Edward Heneage Primary Academy in North East Lincolnshire has turned a corner. In its most recent graded inspection, the school earned a Good rating from Ofsted, a significant improvement on its previous Inadequate judgement in 2017. The inspection, which took place in 2024, rated both leadership and management and early years provision as Good. An ungraded inspection later that year confirmed that standards are being maintained. But the most telling academic metric comes from the school’s Key Stage 2 results for 2023/24. A full 78% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure is well above the local authority average of 64%, placing Edward Heneage sixth out of 42 primary schools in North East Lincolnshire and inside the top 25% nationally. For a school where 49.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, these outcomes represent a strong performance.

Digging deeper into the 2023/24 SATs data, the school’s strengths become clearer. In reading, 81% of pupils reached the expected standard and 42% achieved the higher standard, a notably high proportion. Average reading and maths scores were 106 and 102 respectively. Writing and maths both saw 78% of pupils at the expected level, while 14% hit the higher standard in writing and 11% in maths. The combined higher standard across all three subjects was 6%. The school’s overall ranking score of 78 puts it comfortably ahead of the local average and within the top 15% nationally. While progress scores are not available in the data, the raw attainment figures suggest pupils are arriving at secondary school with solid foundations. The school has no sixth form, as it is a primary, so the story here is firmly about the seven years of primary education and the strong finish at Key Stage 2.

The school is oversubscribed for 2025/26, with 37 applications for 14 places and all 14 first-preference applicants offered a spot, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.64. It has a nursery provision for children from age three and a total capacity of 322, though current pupil numbers sit at 210. Facilities include a sensory room, library, forest school, playing fields and an outdoor playground. Sports on offer are gymnastics, netball, football and cricket, while clubs include coding, drama, choir and book club. The school’s SEND provisions cover moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability and other difficulties. For families in North East Lincolnshire, Edward Heneage offers a solidly performing primary with strong KS2 outcomes, a clear upward trajectory in Ofsted judgements and a broad set of provisions for children with additional needs.

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