- Grammar school for girls
- Lincolnshire 11+
Spalding High School: 11+ entry
Stonegate, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2PJ
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Can we apply, and what did it take?
For September 2027 entry
Opens a short explanationqualifying scoreThe score a child must reach to be considered for a grammar school place in that area. Reaching it is not an offer of a place: places then follow each school’s admission rules.
220or more
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+, 2027 entry
Checked, source: Spalding High School, checkedYear 7 places
150
2027 entry, Published Admission Number ()Opens a short explanationPANPublished Admission NumberThe number of places a school offers in its first year group, for example Year 7. The admission authority sets it each year in the school’s admission policy.
Checked, source: Spalding High School, checked- Not publishedWe have no checked figure for how far offers reached.
Last distance offered
Your next deadline
Next: School place applications close: Common Application Form ()Opens a short explanationCAFCommon Application FormThe form you use to apply for a secondary school place. You send it to your own council, even for schools in another area, and you list the schools you want in order of preference. In England it closes on 31 October.
in 11 days
Can we get in?
How far offers reached
Each bar shows how far from Spalding High School the last child offered a place lived, under the last admission rule the offers reached. Up to five years, on one scale.
Qualifying is not the same as being offered a place.
A score of 220 or more in the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+ means your child can be considered. If more children qualify than there are places, the school gives places using its admission rules, in order. The figures below show how far those rules reached in past years. They are history, not a prediction: they change every year with who applies.
Applications and offers, September 2026 entry (Department for Education)
How many families applied to Spalding High School and how many places it offered. Applicants per place is all applications divided by offers. Families apply to several schools and not every applicant qualifies, so it is not the chance of a place.
| Figure | Department for Education |
|---|---|
| First-preference applications | 202First-preference applications, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254027,z,3,Spalding High School,149,149,142,6,1,300,202,72,26,1.4225352112676057,1.3557046979865772,57,26,Community school,No religious character,11.4,Selective,Urban: Nearer to a major town or city,No,E14001487,South Holland and The Deepings,120642,7View the official source |
| All applications (any preference) | 300All applications (any preference), 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254027,z,3,Spalding High School,149,149,142,6,1,300,202,72,26,1.4225352112676057,1.3557046979865772,57,26,Community school,No religious character,11.4,Selective,Urban: Nearer to a major town or city,No,E14001487,South Holland and The Deepings,120642,7View the official source |
| Places offered on National Offer Day | 149Places offered on National Offer Day, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254027,z,3,Spalding High School,149,149,142,6,1,300,202,72,26,1.4225352112676057,1.3557046979865772,57,26,Community school,No religious character,11.4,Selective,Urban: Nearer to a major town or city,No,E14001487,South Holland and The Deepings,120642,7View the official source |
| Applicants per place | 2Applicants per place, 2026 entryChecked 16 Oct 2026 against Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics).The source says: 202627,Academic year,School,E92000001,England,E12000004,East Midlands,925,E10000019,Lincolnshire,Secondary,9254027,z,3,Spalding High School,149,149,142,6,1,300,202,72,26,1.4225352112676057,1.3557046979865772,57,26,Community school,No religious character,11.4,Selective,Urban: Nearer to a major town or city,No,E14001487,South Holland and The Deepings,120642,7View the official source |
Source: Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics), checked
About these figures
Spalding High has not published past cut-off scores on the pages we checked.
At a glance
Spalding High School in brief
tap a value for its source
- Pupils
- girlsPupilsChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Spalding High School is a girls' grammar school, with a mixed sex sixth form.
View the official source - Who the school admits.
- Year 7 places
- 150Year 7 placesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
The published admission number for year 7 is 150.
View the official source2027 entry - The (PAN): how many children the school plans to admit.
- Entrance test
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- The test children sit to be considered. Written by GL Assessment.
- School type
- maintained school (Lincolnshire County Council is the admission authority)School typeChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Lincolnshire County Council is the Admission Authority.
View the official source - How the school is run and funded.
Key dates
Dates for September 2027 entry
For children in Year 6 in 2026/27.
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools
3 earlier steps, all doneShow
Done: Test registration opens
Done: Test registration closes
Done: Results
12pm
Next: School place applications close (CAF)
in 11 days
Coming up: National Offer Day
Not published yet: Test day
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Year 5 now? Dates for September 2028 entryNone of these dates are published yet.
Not published yet: Test registration opens
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Test registration closes
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Test day
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Not published yet: Results
Not yet published, checked 9 Oct 2026
Notes on these dates
Late registration and late tests: registration has closed; late registration can be discussed with the school's 11+ contactSpalding High School: Late testing (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says: Registration for the 11+ is now closed. Please contact Mrs Kingerley at [email protected] if you would like to discuss late registration
View the official source.
How places are given
3 admission rules, in order, for 2027 entry
If more children qualify than there are places, Spalding High School gives places using these rules (its Opens a short explanationoversubscription criteriaThe rules a school uses, in order, to decide who gets a place when more children apply than there are places. For example: children in care first, then brothers and sisters of pupils, then distance from home.), in this order (2027 entry).
- 1
Looked-after and previously looked-after children
The policy's own words
Looked after children and previously looked after children including those children
- 2
A brother or sister on roll at the school
The policy's own words
Children with a brother or sister on roll at Spalding High School at the time of
- 3
Straight-line distance, nearest first
The policy's own words
Straight line distance from the home to the school, with those living closet having
Source: Spalding High School, checked
- If two children are level for the last place
- straight-line distance, then lottery by an independent personSource: Spalding High School, checked
- Brothers and sisters
- criterion 2: brother or sister on roll at application or at admission, living at the same addressSource: Spalding High School, checked
- Waiting list
- reserve list in oversubscription order, kept by the admissions team until the end of the coordinated round in August, then by the schoolSource: Spalding High School, checked
More detail from our guide
- How distance is measured: Straight line, from the Ordnance Survey AddressBase point of the child's home to the schoolSpalding High School: Distance rule (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Distances are measured in a straight line and are calculated to three decimal places (for example 1.543 miles) by our school admissions team, using the “Synergy” system.
View the official source - Siblings: criterion 2: brother or sister on roll at application or at admission, living at the same addressSpalding High School: Sibling priority (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Children with a brother or sister on roll at Spalding High School at the time of
View the official source - Waiting list: reserve list in oversubscription order, kept by the admissions team until the end of the coordinated round in August, then by the schoolSpalding High School: Waiting list (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
The list is kept by the school admissions team until the end of the coordinated admission round in August each year. Spalding High School will then keep the reserve list until the end of the academic year.
View the official source
The test
Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- Test
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+
- Written by
- GL Assessment
- Test date, 2027 entry
- Not yet published
Spalding High uses the two Lincolnshire consortium tests; a total of 220Lincolnshire: Qualifying scoreChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools.The source says: The qualifying level is a total standardised score of at least 220 on both papers.
View the official source or more qualifies a child.
Format: Lincolnshire guide.
Open days
All this year's events have passed
Done: Open Day (passed)
Source: Spalding High School, checked
If you are refused a place
Reviews, appeals and the waiting list
General information, not legal advice.
- How appeals work
- independent appeals via Lincolnshire County Council (appeals timetable on the council website)Source: Spalding High School, checked
General information, not legal advice.
How appeals work here: independent appeals via Lincolnshire County Council (appeals timetable on the council website)Spalding High School: Appeals route (2027)Checked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says: There is an independent appeals procedure for those parents/carers who wish to appeal against a decision not to offer a place.
View the official source.
What is different about Spalding High
- Lincolnshire County Council, not the school, is the admission authority, so the council sets and runs its admission rulesSpalding High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Lincolnshire County Council is the Admission Authority.
View the official source - Selection by two written tests taken at Spalding High SchoolSpalding High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Selection is by means of two written tests taken at Spalding High School and the standard adopted for admission is the agreed qualifying standard;
View the official source - After looked-after children and siblings, places go purely by distanceSpalding High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
Straight line distance from the home to the school, with those living closet having
View the official source - A child who misses the standard cannot be retested for Year 8 until the second half of the summer term before entrySpalding High School: DistinctivesChecked 9 Oct 2026 against Spalding High School.The source says:
not achieve the qualifying standard for year 7 cannot be tested for year 8 until the
View the official source
Entry in September 2028 (Year 5 now)
No 2028 arrangements found yet.
Official documents and sources
9 sources, each kept as an archived copy
- Department for Education (Explore Education Statistics)
Spreadsheet · copy archived by ExamKind on 16 Oct 2026
- Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 13 Oct 2026
- Lincolnshire County Council
Spreadsheet · copy archived by ExamKind on 11 Oct 2026
- Lincolnshire County Council
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 11 Oct 2026
- Spalding High School
PDF document · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Spalding High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Spalding High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Spalding High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
- Spalding High School
Web page · copy archived by ExamKind on 9 Oct 2026
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