Lincolnshire is one of the few counties within the UK that still uses the eleven-plus to decide who may attend grammar school, in common with Buckinghamshire and Kent.
[citation needed] Amongst the secondary modern schools are some that achieve good results and OFSTED inspections.
In general, most school results in both these unitary authorities are low for GCSE and A-level, with the exception of the Franklin College in Grimsby.
[2][3][4] Due to Grimsby's teenage pregnancy levels, it has a Young Mums Unit to support pregnant schoolchildren.
[5] King Edward VI Academy, is a bi-lateral secondary school and specialist Humanities College in Spilsby.
The bilateral status is highly unusual, with less than five similar arrangements in the whole of England and Wales, permitting those who have passed the eleven-plus together with those who fail to study separate curriculums while under the same roof and with the same teaching staff.
For secondary modern pupils, there is no sixth form in Gainsborough, Long Sutton, Horncastle (including Coningsby and Tattershall), Alford, Mablethorpe, or Caistor.
Over on the other side of the Humber, all comprehensive schools (except one in Snaith) in the East Riding of Yorkshire have sixth forms.
The best performing secondary modern is St George's Academy in Sleaford, which achieves results better than twelve comprehensives.
Lincolnshire gets the best results at A-level, on average, in the East Midlands (and some of the best in England for a traditional county).
The Lafford High School secondary modern in Billinghay is closing in 2010 due to falling pupil numbers.
[8] However, many primary schools in Boston and South Holland are struggling to cope with vast increases in numbers due to mass migration from Eastern Europe agricultural workers.
[14][15] A variety of community education programmes operate in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council, including ones at local further education colleges and others run by charitable trusts, such as Pelican Trust, or operating as community interest companies such as Community Learning in Partnership (CLIP) which provides lifelong training as well a work-based learning scheme for young people in the UK aged 16–18 who are not engaged in any kind of employment, education or training.