The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
The trust behind Spalding Academy and Cowley Academy has been ranked the 12th best and first in the East Midlands.
That’s according to the latest Progress Eight scores for Multi-Academy Trusts (MATS) which proscribed the scores to the South Lincolnshire Academy Trust.
Progress Eight is a key performance indicator used by the Department for Education to calculate the progress students make from Key Stage Two (before they start in Year Seven) to Key Stage Four (at the end of Year 11).
South Lincolnshire Academies Trust is one of only 14 MATs in England to be ranked as performing well above average’ with a MAT Progress 8 score of +0.56, compared to the national average of -0.03.
Spalding Academy is in the top five per cent nationally with a score 0.67 while Cowley is classed as above average with 0.08.
Mrs Lucy Conley, chief executive officer of South Lincolnshire Academies Trust said: “We are delighted that the achievements of our staff and students are recognised in this way.
“We firmly believe that we have got the right balance to be a highly successful trust.
“As a small Trust with four schools that are geographically close to each other, this allows the leadership team to work across all schools, so all benefit and are fully supported.
“Our leadership team can purely focus on providing the very best education for ages 11 to 18 years in non-selective local schools.”
