Malet Lambert

About Malet Lambert

Malet Lambert is a large, mixed state secondary school in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local authority, serving pupils from age 11 to 16. Within the LA’s 14 secondary schools, it ranks 9th by Progress 8 score, placing it in the bottom half of local providers. The top-performing peers in the area are St Mary’s College, Voluntary Catholic Academy, Liberty Academy, and Lift Kingswood, all of which post significantly stronger Progress 8 scores. The school is led by headteacher Patrick Sprakes and has a capacity of 1,750, with 1,652 pupils currently on roll. It is a non-religious school with no sixth form or nursery provision. In its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023, the school retained its Good rating across all categories — overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management — a rating it has held consistently since at least its previous graded inspection in 2012.

Academically, the school’s Progress 8 score of -0.57 is below the local authority average of -0.44 and is classified as ‘Well below average’ nationally. This means pupils overall make less progress than their peers across England. The Attainment 8 score sits at 42.6, and 57.7% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths, compared with 36.5% achieving the more demanding grade 5 threshold. The EBacc average point score is 3.9, with 64.1% of pupils entering the EBacc combination of subjects, though only 24.7% achieved a grade 4 or above in all five components. Progress is weakest in maths (-0.62) and strongest in English (-0.46), though still negative. The school’s ranking in Yorkshire and the Humber is 253rd out of 306 schools, and nationally it sits at 2,699th out of 3,141.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, it received 785 applications for 348 places, a ratio of 2.26 applicants per place, with 399 first-preference applications and 328 first-preference offers. Facilities include tennis courts, a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium, astro turf, science labs, music rooms, an ICT suite, and a chapel. Sports offered range from basketball and rugby to rowing and dance, while clubs include Chess, Debate, DofE, Coding, and Orchestra. The school provides for a wide range of SEND needs, including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health, speech and language, hearing and visual impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a school that suits families prioritising a large, well-subscribed local secondary with strong facilities and consistent Ofsted ratings, but where academic progress is below the Hull average and the national benchmark.

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