The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School, Boston

Ofsted's report card from its 2 June 2026 inspection grades The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders are swift in their response when pupils do not attend well."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have a clear understanding of the context and starting points of children when they join the school."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations of most pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), pupils who are disadvantaged and those who are known to social care."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders know the school, the community and pupils well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have ensured that the personal development curriculum reflects the school's context."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Teachers do not consistently highlight areas, where pupils need to improve in their writing, for example with letter formation and spelling."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders are in the process of reviewing the curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue their work to review the curriculum to ensure that the knowledge and skills pupils should learn are clearly identified in all subjects to support pupils to achieve well across the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that all staff implement consistently and effectively the new approaches to the teaching of writing, with a particular focus on developing handwriting and transcription skills"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers use their knowledge of pupils' barriers to learning, including those of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and assessment information to assist them to adapt the curriculum and teaching appropriately, to enable all pupils to build successfully on what they know"; "Leaders should further strengthen their work to improve attendance with a particular focus on disadvantaged pupils, to ensure that all pupils come to school as often as possible"; "Leaders should ensure that pupils understand how the school's values that they follow in their behaviour and conduct link with fundamental British values".

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:45am, from £3.50 per day.

In 2025, 77% of Year 6 pupils at The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 81% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 72% and 71% in Lincolnshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 68% in reading and 76% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 26 families put The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School as their first choice and 47 named it as one of their preferences, for 26 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School are Fishtoft Academy (2.1 miles, Good, 64% reading, 64% maths); Hawthorn Tree School (2.1 miles, Good, 75% reading, 73% maths); St Nicholas CE Primary Academy (2.8 miles, Good, 85% reading, 85% maths); and Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston (3 miles, Good, 83% reading, 97% maths).

The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

4.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 23 pupils (9.3%) received SEN support and 17 (6.9%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School had 17 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Pinchbeck Road (adjacent), 90 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 6 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and other crime. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Lincolnshire (33).

In 2024/25, The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School issued 5 suspensions, 1.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.