School profile
Fen Rivers Academy
Kilhams Way, King's Lynn, PE30 2HU
Overview
Fen Rivers Academy is a special / send school (academy special sponsor led) in King's Lynn, East of England, for pupils aged 4–16. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special sponsor led
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 4–16
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 96
- Pupils on roll
- 82
- URN
- 150265
Admissions
- Local authority
- Norfolk
- Academy trust or group
- THE BRIDGE MAT LTD
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 83 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 85 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 14 September 2022 · Published 18 October 2022
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
This inspection relates to a predecessor school, The Fen Rivers Academy. It is not a judgement about the school under its current identity.
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Kilhams Way, King's Lynn, PE30 2HU
- Local authority
- Norfolk
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