Giles Academy, Boston

In 2025, pupils at Giles Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 38.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46.2 in Lincolnshire and 46.8 across England.

22% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in Lincolnshire and 46% in England.

That is down from 40 in 2024.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.2: pupils made above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2025.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 36.1, against 41.7 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 5.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 17 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 188 families put Giles Academy as their first choice and 427 named it as one of their preferences, for 170 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 39 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

First-choice demand has risen from 59 in 2021 to 188 in 2026, while places went from 83 to 170.

Across Lincolnshire, 85% of families were offered their first-choice secondary school for 2026 entry, and 96% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2025, families in Lincolnshire lodged 745 appeals against secondary school offers; 627 reached a hearing and 242 succeeded (38.6% of those heard).

The nearest other state secondary schools to Giles Academy are Boston High School (5.3 miles, Good, selective, Attainment 8 58.8); and William Lovell Church of England Academy (5.8 miles, Requires improvement, Attainment 8 29.4).

Giles Academy's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 2 schools.

Giles Academy is one of 4 schools run by South Lincolnshire Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 45.3 in 2023/24, with a Progress 8 score of 0.44 (zero is the national average).

Of the 146 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2022/23, 84% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 66% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

34% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (the average state school: 24.5%), and 27.6% speak English as an additional language (average: 18.5%), according to the 2025 school census.

In 2025, 107 pupils (12.9%) received SEN support and 24 (2.9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 15.6% and 3.9% at the average state school. The most common need among them is a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia.

Giles Academy employed 48 teachers in 2024, roughly one for every 17 pupils. Their average salary was £42,949.

Its 2026 funding allocation works out at £7,572 per pupil (£6.9 million in total), including £313,900 of pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils.

There is no railway or Underground station within about three miles of Giles Academy.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Giles School (adjacent), 80 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Giles Academy stands in is among the 40% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 6 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Lincolnshire (34).

In 2023/24, Giles Academy issued 76 suspensions, 9.3 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 2.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Giles Academy are Old Leake Primary Academy (0.1 miles) and Wrangle Primary Academy (1.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.