England · Grammar school
Caistor Grammar School
Caistor · Mixed (co-educational) · ages 11 to 18
Official record: Get Information About Schools (URN 136350)
Overview
- Address
- Church Street, Caistor, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, LN7 6QJ
- Status
- Open
- Admits
- Mixed (co-educational)
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Number of pupils
- 690
- Capacity
- 649
- Eligible for free school meals
- 7%
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School type
- Academy converter
- Religious character
- None
- Trust
- Not yet available
- Local authority
- Lincolnshire
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Desk research (cited public sources) (get-information-schools.service.gov.uk), last checked 31 October 2026
Admissions and the 11+
- Admissions policy
- Selective (grammar school)
- Selection in this area
- Fully selective area25% of Year 7 places offered in Lincolnshire for September 2026 were at selective schools (DfE applications and offers). We class an area as fully selective at 25% or more. Confirm with the local authority's admissions guide.
- Entrance test
- Not yet available
- Qualifying score
- Not yet available
- Catchment area
- For September 2027 entry, children whose main home (where they sleep at least five nights a week in term time) is within 6.5 miles in a straight line of the school are 'in catchment'. Qualifying in-catchment children are offered places after looked-after children, ranked by verbal reasoning score if needed. Up to 12 places are then kept for pupil premium children.
- Children from outside the catchment
- Sometimes: For September 2027 entry, qualifying children living more than 6.5 miles away get any remaining places, highest verbal reasoning scores first.
Applications and offers for Year 7
For September 2026 entry, 184 applicants named this school (142 as their first choice) for 113 places. 72 of 113 offers went to children living outside Lincolnshire.
| Intake | Places offered | Applicants | First choice | First choices per place | Offers to children outside Lincolnshire |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 | 113 | 184 | 142 | 1.3 | 72 |
| Sept 2025 | 96 | 189 | 134 | 1.4 | 51 |
| Sept 2024 | 96 | 187 | 129 | 1.3 | 65 |
| Sept 2023 | 97 | 161 | 123 | 1.3 | 66 |
| Sept 2022 | 99 | 170 | 116 | 1.2 | 48 |
Show all 13 years
| Intake | Places offered | Applicants | First choice | First choices per place | Offers to children outside Lincolnshire |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2021 | 99 | 199 | 133 | 1.3 | 47 |
| Sept 2020 | 99 | 184 | 125 | 1.3 | 51 |
| Sept 2019 | 100 | 185 | 137 | 1.4 | 49 |
| Sept 2018 | 100 | 191 | 122 | 1.2 | 57 |
| Sept 2017 | 100 | 184 | 126 | 1.3 | 57 |
| Sept 2016 | 98 | 187 | 124 | 1.3 | 47 |
| Sept 2015 | 94 | 165 | 110 | 1.2 | 49 |
| Sept 2014 | 93 | 163 | 113 | 1.2 | 51 |
"Applicants" counts every family that listed the school as any preference, so it is higher than the number competing for each place. "Outside Lincolnshire" means a home in another local authority; it is not the school's catchment area. For grammar schools, offers also depend on the entrance test result.
Source: Secondary and primary school applications and offers (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026 · Source: Admissions research (cited public sources) (cdn.yello.link), last checked 1 November 2026
Key dates for September 2027 entry
- Test registration (Lincolnshire grammar schools)
- 7 January 2026 to 31 March 2026
- Test date
- 12 September 2026, 19 September 202612 Sep verbal reasoning, 19 Sep non-verbal reasoning. Opening varies by school (7 or 9 Jan); some schools closed 20 Mar; one school late window to 17 Jul 2026. Caistor Grammar runs its own process (registration closed 14 Aug 2026). Results from grammar schools are not an offer.
- Results sent to families
- 9 October 2026
- Apply to your council (September 2027 entry)
- By 31 October 2026This date has passed: late applications go to your council and are usually considered after on-time ones.
- National offer day
- 1 March 2027Offers are sent on 1 March, or the next working day.
- Open days
- Not yet available
- School opened (current registration)
- 1 December 2010
Unverified: test dates come from desk research (medium confidence). Confirm them with the council or test organiser. Sources: kings.lincs.sch.uk/admissions/entry-to-year-7-in-september-2027/registration-for-entry-2027, kings.lincs.sch.uk/admissions/entry-to-year-7-in-september-2027, kestevengrantham.lincs.sch.uk.
Statutory dates: School Admissions Code (Department for Education).
Guide to the Lincolnshire grammar schools and its schools · How applying works
Source: Test dates research (cited public sources) (kings.lincs.sch.uk), last checked 1 November 2026 · Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026
Ofsted inspection
Inspected on 24 May 2022: overall Good. Read the report ↗
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form provision
- Good
Inspection history (2)
Source: Ofsted inspection reports, last checked 31 October 2026
Exam results
GCSE results 2025/26 (provisional)
| Measure | This school | Selective schools in England | All state schools in England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8Average grade across 8 GCSE-level subjects, doubled for English and maths (maximum 90). | 68.9 | 72.1 | 46.2 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 90.2% | 93.7% | 46.3% |
| Grade 7 or above in English and maths | 41.2% | 57.7% | 14.2% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 97.1% | 98.3% | 64.8% |
| Progress 8Not published for most schools in recent years, because primary school tests were cancelled in 2020 and 2021. | – | – | – |
Attainment 8 over time: 71.1 (2023/24) → 69.8 (2024/25) → 68.9 (2025/26).
102 pupils took GCSEs. Results reflect a selective intake: compare grammar schools with each other rather than with all schools.
Source: Key stage 4 performance (GCSE results) (Department for Education), last checked 31 October 2026
How to get there
- Postcode
- LN7 6QJ
- Map location
- 53.49656, -0.32025
- Open in OpenStreetMap
- Directions and surroundings ↗
- Telephone
- 01472851250
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026
Official links and documents
- School website
- www.caistorgrammar.com
- Official register record
- Get Information About Schools (URN 136350) ↗
- Admissions policy document
- Not yet available
- Further reading
- Wikipedia ↗
Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026