The Eresby School, Spilsby

State-Funded School

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East MidlandsRegion

LincolnshireLocal Authority

Louth and HorncastleConstituency

PE23 5HUPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

The Eresby School, Spilsby is a state-funded special for pupils aged 2–19, located in Lincolnshire, East Midlands.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 112 pupils. The Eresby School, Spilsby is part of The David Ross Education Trust.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2025

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

93%

Black

<1%

Mixed

Chinese

<1%

Unclassified

Pupils

112

Total Pupils

68%Boys

32%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

63%

England average

27%

First language not English

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 2 – 19
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 112
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)
MAT name: The David Ross Education Trust

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 4 June 2025. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
27 Feb 2013	Outstanding	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Outstanding

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.