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Carre's Grammar School

Sleaford · Boys only · ages 11 to 18

Official record: Get Information About Schools (URN 137213)

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Overview

Address: Northgate, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, NG34 7DD
Status: Open
Admits: Boys only
From the school’s admissions policy: Boys only at 11; girls join in the sixth form.
Age range: 11 to 18
Number of pupils: 810
Capacity: 830
Eligible for free school meals: 8.9%
Sixth form: Yes
School type: Academy converter
Religious character: None
Trust: COMMUNITY INCLUSIVE TRUST
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 · Source: Schools' own admission arrangements (carres.uk), last checked 2 November 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 2026 and 2027 entry there is no catchment area. After looked-after children, children registered for pupil premium and siblings at a Robert Carre Trust school, places go to qualifying children living closest (straight line).
Children from outside the catchment: Yes: For September 2026 and 2027 entry any child reaching the qualifying score can be offered a place; if oversubscribed, places go by straight-line distance.

Applications and offers for Year 7

For September 2026 entry, 230 applicants named this school (95 as their first choice) for 113 places. 15 of 113 offers went to children living outside Lincolnshire.

Applications and offers by September intake
Intake	Places offered	Applicants	First choice	First choices per place	Offers to children outside Lincolnshire
Sept 2026	113	230	95	0.8	15
Sept 2025	120	219	126	1.1	18
Sept 2024	110	210	103	0.9	12
Sept 2023	103	209	105	1.0	17
Sept 2022	128	229	138	1.1	11

Show all 13 years

Earlier intakes
Intake	Places offered	Applicants	First choice	First choices per place	Offers to children outside Lincolnshire
Sept 2021	92	183	100	1.1	11
Sept 2020	102	212	104	1.0	15
Sept 2019	98	198	95	1.0	15
Sept 2018	120	233	129	1.1	17
Sept 2017	77	215	86	1.1	11
Sept 2016	107	222	118	1.1	15
Sept 2015	116	246	131	1.1	21
Sept 2014	115	227	119	1.0	25

"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) (lincolnshire.gov.uk), 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 August 2011

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 5 December 2023: 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 (6)

5 December 2023: Full inspection, Good · report
7 February 2023: Monitoring visit · report
21 June 2022: School inspection, Inadequate · report
14 March 2017: Short inspection · report
23 January 2013: Full inspection, Good · report
14 February 2012: Academy conversion letter · report

Source: Ofsted inspection reports, last checked 31 October 2026

Exam results

GCSE results 2025/26 (provisional)

GCSE results compared with national averages
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).	60	72.1	46.2
Grade 5 or above in English and maths	82%	93.7%	46.3%
Grade 7 or above in English and maths	23.6%	57.7%	14.2%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths	93.3%	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: 57.2 (2023/24) → 58 (2024/25) → 60 (2025/26).

89 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: NG34 7DD
Map location: 53.00264, -0.4109
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Telephone: 01529302181

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026

Official links and documents

School website: www.carres.uk
Official register record: Get Information About Schools (URN 137213) ↗
Admissions policy document: Not yet available
Further reading: Wikipedia ↗

Source: Get Information About Schools, last checked 31 October 2026

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Data sources: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.; Desk research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each field; Schools' own admission arrangements (Each school (linked on the item)), Facts taken from each school's published admission arrangements, linked on the item; Admissions research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each item; Test dates research (cited public sources) (UK School Map), Facts compiled from the public sources linked on each item

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