Western Primary School
Grimsby, DN34 5RS · North East Lincolnshire local authority
Grimsby’s School Grade C better than 34% of towns in England
What stands out about Western Primary School
- Its own letter, C−: Key Stage 2 results better than 15% of England’s primary schools
- 48% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14 points below England’s schools
- Room to spare: 210 pupils for 315 places
- 46% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (11 of 11)
- Homes in its postcode sector (DN34 5) sold for a median £140,800; Grimsby’s is £138,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 48%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 14% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · North East Lincolnshire avg 64%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 14 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Western Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. North East Lincolnshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through North East Lincolnshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire, side by side
2023–2025All 43 graded primaries in North East Lincolnshire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Grimsby’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Coates Primary School | A | 49% | 81% |
| Ormiston South Parade Academy | A | 48% | 80% |
| New Waltham Academy | A | 15% | 79% |
| Edward Heneage Primary Academy | A | 46% | 78% |
| Middlethorpe Primary Academy | A | 24% | 77% |
| Signhills Academy | A | 15% | 76% |
| Scartho Junior Academy | A | 33% | 76% |
| Wybers Wood Academy | A− | 14% | 75% |
| Stallingborough CofE Primary School | A− | 21% | 71% |
| Bursar Primary Academy | A− | 19% | 71% |
| Healing Primary Academy | A− | 8% | 71% |
| Macaulay Primary Academy | B+ | 36% | 70% |
| Old Clee Primary Academy | B+ | 38% | 70% |
| Humberston Cloverfields Academy | B+ | 15% | 70% |
| Eastfield Primary Academy | B+ | 36% | 69% |
| Laceby Acres Primary Academy | B+ | 23% | 69% |
| Littlecoates Primary Academy | B+ | 57% | 69% |
| William Barcroft Junior School | B+ | 72% | 69% |
| Woodlands Academy | B+ | 46% | 68% |
| Thrunscoe Primary and Nursery Academy | B | 50% | 67% |
| Springfield Primary Academy | B | 16% | 67% |
| Lisle Marsden Church of England Primary Academy | B | 33% | 66% |
| Pilgrim Academy | B | 26% | 66% |
| East Ravendale CofE Primary School Academy | B | 7% | 65% |
| Elliston Primary Academy | B− | 60% | 64% |
| The Humberston Church of England Primary School | B− | 16% | 64% |
| Weelsby Academy | B− | 61% | 63% |
| Willows Academy | B− | 34% | 63% |
| Coomb Briggs Primary Academy | B− | 20% | 63% |
| The Canon Peter Hall CofE Primary School | B− | 47% | 62% |
| Laceby Stanford Primary Academy | B− | 17% | 62% |
| Waltham Leas Primary Academy | C+ | 16% | 60% |
| Fairfield Academy | C+ | 11% | 60% |
| Yarborough Academy | C | 15% | 57% |
| Grange Primary School | C | 51% | 56% |
| Enfield Academy of New Waltham | C− | 16% | 52% |
| St Peter's CofE Primary School | C− | 50% | 50% |
| Western Primary School | C− | 46% | 48% |
| Strand Primary Academy | C− | 53% | 48% |
| Reynolds Primary Academy | D | 28% | 46% |
| Welholme Academy | D | 60% | 45% |
| Oasis Academy Nunsthorpe | D | 73% | 40% |
| Saint Mary's Catholic Voluntary Academy | D− | 42% | 36% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025248 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Western Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting March 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, May 2023.
Living near Western Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in DN34 5, the school’s postcode sector
Grimsby property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in DN34 5 sell for about the same as Grimsby’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
12 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Grimsby, DN34 5RS
Western Primary School: common questions
Is Western Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 15% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C−), with 48% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in March 2026.
How hard is it to get into Western Primary School?
For September 2026, 11 families put Western Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 11 places were offered in all.
What is Western Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Western Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, DN34 5, sold for a median £140,800 over the 36 months to August 2026 (382 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Grimsby’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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