Overall Oxbridge
#684
3 ranked schools · +230 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
22
Offers
5
Offer rate22.7%
+0.3 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Red-brick Georgian warehouses and Victorian civic buildings frame King's Lynn's riverside centre, where the medieval town grid spreads inland from The Wash estuary in Norfolk. The Great Ouse waterfront anchors the town's identity as a historic market port, a hub that once sustained far-reaching trade networks into the Low Countries and beyond. Around 47,600 people live here today.
Gaywood and Shouldham have emerged as the school-competitive neighbourhoods, drawing families actively seeking primary places and catchment advantage. From King's Lynn station, regular services connect to Norwich in just over an hour, linking this market town into the wider East Anglian rail network and regional commerce. Litcham, Stoke Ferry, and Terrington St Clement extend outward into quieter rural villages across the periphery.
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Area Performance
Across 53 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.06/10, -0.31 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all King's Lynn schools
King's Lynn vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked King's Lynn schools
top 61% of 14,978
top 61% of 14,978
top 81% of 3,862
top 81% of 3,862
top 78% of 2,555
top 78% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
3 ranked schools · +230 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
22
Offers
5
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
3
Offers
0
Cambridge
3 ranked schools · +46 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
19
Offers
5
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Local directory
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