Overall Oxbridge
#861
4 ranked schools · +53 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
41
Offers
8
Offer rate19.5%
-2.9 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Medieval stonework along the high street meets Georgian coaching inns and Victorian railway architecture in Grantham, a market town on the River Witham in Lincolnshire's South Kesteven district. Denton is among the most sought-after pockets for primary catchments, and Barrowby Gate draws families competing for school places on the town's western edge. The innovation record is notable: the first running diesel engine in Britain was built here in 1892 and the first practical tractor in 1896, in a town already known as Margaret Thatcher's birthplace and the site of Isaac Newton's early schooling. Around 44,000 people live there today. Barrowby, Belton, and West Grantham form the outer residential ring, with East Midlands Railway connecting the town to Nottingham in around thirty minutes.
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Post-16
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Area Performance
Across 42 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.32/10, -0.08 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Grantham schools
Grantham vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Grantham schools
top 68% of 14,978
top 68% of 14,978
top 42% of 3,862
top 42% of 3,862
top 38% of 2,555
top 38% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
4 ranked schools · +53 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
41
Offers
8
Oxford
3 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
14
Offers
0
Cambridge
4 ranked schools · +161 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
27
Offers
8
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