Lincoln UTC
Free school · ages 14–19 · with a sixth form
Above average on 2 of the four headline measures, below on 1 — 19th of 54 for average grade in Lincolnshire.
Lincoln · Lincolnshire · one of 54 state secondaries
Summary
Lincoln UTC sits 19th of 54 state secondaries in Lincolnshire for average GCSE grade. 77.8% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 62.9% across Lincolnshire. 55.6% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of Lincolnshire in maths and English Language, and furthest behind in chemistry and physics. Ofsted: Good in June 2019, confirmed in November 2024.
It is a free school of 389 pupils, taking ages 14 to 19 and running its own sixth form. 26% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 15.4% are on SEN support with a further 2.6% holding an education, health and care plan. 0% were entered for the full EBacc, fewer than the 37.2% entered across Lincolnshire, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 85.5% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 6.6% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, better than the 23.4% across Lincolnshire, and 76% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Lincolnshire, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·Lincolnshire
Inspection
Good
Last inspected November 2024
The grade itself is 7 years old.
- November 2024 Ungraded inspection Standards maintained
- June 2019 Full inspection Good
An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds rather than replacing it.
That grade was given under the framework Ofsted used before September 2019.
Attendance
7% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 23% across Lincolnshire and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Attainment
46.1
Average grade across 8 Attainment 8, out of 90
in line with average
Lincolnshire 45.1 · England 46.1
0%
Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects
well below average
Lincolnshire 37% · England 41%
After Year 11
76% stayed in education, 9% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
Every bar is on the same 0–100% scale, so subjects can be read against each other as well as against the county and England. A dash means the figure does not exist rather than being zero. The county and England lines cover state-funded schools only, the same schools you can browse here, because independent schools sit outside the Department for Education's subject release and outside this site.
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Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
Sixth form
2024/25 · 42 A level students
D+
Average A level resultper entry, DfE grade
below average
Lincolnshire C+ · England C+
D+
Best three A levelsthe grade a typical offer asks for
8%
AAB or betterat least two in facilitating subjects
below average
Lincolnshire 13.9% · England 12.8%
92%
Stayed the coursefinished what they started
below average
Lincolnshire 97.1% · England 95.7%
Applied general qualifications: average result Merit, 11 students. These are BTECs and similar, graded pass to distinction* rather than A* to E, so the two cannot be compared directly.
A level results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching B or above
After sixth form
Of the 52 students who finished, 46.2% went on to higher education, 21.2% to an apprenticeship, and 25% into work. 96.2% were in a sustained destination of some kind six months later.
Destinations are for 2022/23 leavers, the most recent DfE has published. The results above are 2024/25.
What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
- Grades not published
- Where a subject was sat by only a few students, the Department for Education publishes how many entered and withholds the grades, so that individual students cannot be identified from the figures. The subject is shown, because the school does teach it, but there is nothing to compare. Most A level groups are small enough for this to apply somewhere on a page.
- Average A-level grade
- The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.
School details
Lindum Road
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN2 1PF
- Principal
- Mr Stuart Hamer
- Trust
- Lincoln Utc
- Pupils
- 389 of 640 places
- Spare places
- 40%
- Free school meals
- 26%
- SEND
- 15% on SEN support, 3% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 86% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last +0.09 in 2023/24
Other schools in Lincolnshire
53 schools. Distances are straight-line from this school.
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