Huntingtower Community Primary Academy, Grantham

Ofsted's report card from its 27 January 2026 inspection grades Huntingtower Community Primary Academy on 7 areas: 1 strong standard, 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders have high expectations of attendance."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The school's curriculum identifies what pupils will learn."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders work effectively with parents and carers to ensure a smooth transition into school."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders and staff know pupils well and ensure that their needs are clearly identified, understood and shared across the school."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders, including those responsible for governance, have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have ensured that the provision for pupils' personal development takes account of the context of the school and some of the challenges faced by the local community."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Over time, pupils do not achieve consistently well in writing by the end of key stage 2."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should ensure that the well-designed curriculum is taught consistently well in all subjects and year groups, so that pupils secure the knowledge and skills they need for their next steps. • Leaders should continue their work to improve pupils' achievement, particularly in writing, and build on the improvements already made in other areas. • Leaders should further strengthen their work to deepen pupils' understanding of different cultures, including knowledge of different faiths to make sure that they are fully prepared for life in modern Britain. • Leaders should ensure that interactions with children in the early years consistently promote language development. They should ensure that staff have the skills to take every opportunity to develop children's communication skills".

In its own words: "The core values of the Priory Federation of Academies Trust are pillars of what we do: This ethos - REACH - Respect, Expect, Aspire, Care, Honest - underpins our day to day expectations of our relationships and behaviour."

From the headteacher's welcome: "We also have a strong ethos built around British values which promotes qualities needed for a successful future. This ethos underpins all that we do. We are proud to be part of the Priory Federation of Academies Trust and value the community of professionals and pupils within the Trust's established structure."

In 2025, 68% of Year 6 pupils at Huntingtower Community Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 72% and 71% in Lincolnshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (71% in reading, 71% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 56 families put Huntingtower Community Primary Academy as their first choice and 102 named it as one of their preferences, for 58 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Huntingtower Community Primary Academy are The Isaac Newton Primary School (0.4 miles, Requires improvement, 53% reading, 56% maths); St Wulfram's National Church of England Primary School (0.6 miles, Requires improvement, 60% reading, 58% maths); St Anne's Church of England Primary School, Grantham (0.6 miles, Good, 73% reading, 70% maths); and West Grantham Church of England Primary Academy (0.8 miles, Good, 57% reading, 57% maths).

Huntingtower Community Primary Academy's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Huntingtower Community Primary Academy is one of 14 schools run by The Priory Federation of Academies, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 58% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

38 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Huntingtower Community Primary Academy (as of April 2026): 87% would recommend the school, 87% say their child is happy there and 25% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (95%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (25%).

37.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Grantham Rail Station, about 270 metres away (roughly a 3-minute walk).

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Huntingtower Road Primary School (adjacent), 40 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 374 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Lincolnshire (33), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Huntingtower Community Primary Academy issued 3 suspensions, 0.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The secondary schools closest to Huntingtower Community Primary Academy are West Grantham Church of England Secondary Academy (0.6 miles); The King's School, Grantham (0.7 miles); Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School (0.7 miles); and Walton Academy (0.7 miles).