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Castles Education

Mixed · ages 7–16 · no sixth formLincolnshire, East Midlands · Gainsborough DN21 2SUSchool website
Pupils on roll
93of 145 places
Free school meals
Year 11 cohort 2025
21
Ofsted
Not covered by Ofsted school inspections
What the data says

The Department for Education has not published where Castles Education’s Year 11 leavers went next (destination measures are not published for independent schools), so this page relies on the school’s results and subjects.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Lincolnshire and England.

The Department for Education has not published destination figures for this school (new school, small cohort or not a state-funded school).

GCSE results 2025

MeasureCastles EducationLincolnshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)6.045.146.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths0%42%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths14%63%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%37%41%
EBacc average point score0.313.984.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort27%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils33.834.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils49.250.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)
English as an additional language12%19%

Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.

Subjects taken at GCSE

Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Biology1048%23%0%45%30%
Mathematics943%88%0%22%44%
English Language838%89%0%20%50%
Geography15%41%25%
Combined Science15%65%9%

Other secondary schools in Lincolnshire

Boston High School

Academy converter · sixth form · 837 pupils

95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.8

Bourne Academy

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,573 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.2

Bourne Grammar School

Academy converter · sixth form · 1,718 pupils

97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 68.6

Caistor Grammar School

Academy converter · sixth form · 690 pupils

97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 69.8

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.