The Gainsborough Academy

Ofsted

!Requires improvement (2024) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 10 July 2024, published 18 September 2024. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Usually has places available — 0.88 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ▲The Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough 1.5 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ▲South Axholme Academy 13.7 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ✕Kirton Academy 13.8 km · Inadequate (2022) · previous system
• ▲The Elizabethan Academy 15.6 km · Good (2024) · previous system
• ▲Retford Oaks Academy 16.6 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system
• ▲Frederick Gough School 18.5 km · Good (2023) · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.