Frederick Gough School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D50
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Scunthorpe, DN16 3NG
- Distance
- 9.9km away
Kirton Academy
Redbourne Mere, Gainsborough, DN21 4NN
Local ranking14th of 14 secondary schools in North Lincolnshire
Ofsted: InadequateUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
870
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 26 April 2022. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Huntcliff School (URN 137832) since 1 May 2024. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 39.7 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 25.0% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 50.0% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 92
Destinations
After GCSE 2023-24
- Sustained education/employment
- 94.0%
- Continued in education
- 80.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 10.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
- Not sustained
- 4.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 394
- Boys
- 216 (53%)
- Girls
- 190 (47%)
- Capacity
- 870 (47% full)
- SEND
- 42.1%
- FSM Eligible
- 47.0%
- EAL
- 3.0%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 7.9%
- SEN Support
- 34.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 14.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.7
- Budget per Pupil
- £10,135/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 11.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 31.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 94.4%
- White Other: 2.8%
- Asian Indian: 1.3%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.5%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.3%
- Mixed Other: 0.3%
- Asian Chinese: 0.3%
- Black African: 0.3%
94.4%
White British
2.8%
White Other
1.3%
Asian Indian
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Redbourne Mere
Gainsborough, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 150867
- UKPRN
- 10095433
- Establishment No.
- 4004
- Trust
- LINCOLNSHIRE GATEWAY ACADEMIES TRUST
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