United Kingdom / Regions / Boston
Boston
East Midlands, England · population ~71k · 25 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 18 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Boston
25 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (18 of 25 here), 80.7% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 25 schools.
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Haven High Academy | Secondary | 1,272 | Inadequate | 09/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Boston Grammar School | Secondary | 874 | Good | 05/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
The Giles Academy | Secondary | 832 | Good | 10/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Boston High School | Secondary | 816 | Good· | 17/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Thomas Middlecott Academy | Secondary | 600 | Not graded | 17/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tower Road Academy | Primary | 561 | Good· | 07/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Kirton Primary School | Primary | 537 | Not graded | 01/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Staniland Academy | Primary | 508 | Not graded | 07/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Carlton Road Academy | Primary | 455 | Not graded | 10/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Boston West Academy | Primary | 415 | Good | 11/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Boston Pioneers Free School Academy | Primary | 415 | Not graded | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas CofE Primary Academy | Primary | 415 | Good· | 11/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Hawthorn Tree School | Primary | 368 | Good· | 16/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Park Academy | Primary | 332 | Good | 04/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Butterwick Pinchbeck's Endowed CofE Primary School | Primary | 264 | Good· | 12/01/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Swineshead St Mary's Church of England Primary School | Primary | 226 | Good | 12/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Wyberton Primary Academy | Primary | 208 | Outstanding· | 15/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Old Leake Primary Academy | Primary | 194 | Not graded | — | OfstedWebsite |
Saint Mary's RC Primary Academy Boston | Primary | 189 | Good· | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Nicholas CE Primary Academy | Primary | 188 | Good | 17/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.