Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust

The Trust is made up of four secondary schools, one sixth form academy and three primary schools with approximately 5000 students in total. The Trust was formed in 2012, based around Waltham Toll Bar Academy, a high performing secondary school that had already sponsored Cleethorpes Academy in 2010. The Trust grew and added Reynolds Academy in 2013, Somercotes Academy in 2015, Theddlethorpe Academy in 2016 and Pilgrim Academy and Louth Academy in 2017. The model of school improvement has been to import the successful model in terms of effective teaching strategies, management and administrative practices and critically, the addition of expertise in the form of staff joining a new academy. A key ingredient of our success has been the high expectations we have for our learners and staff both in terms of behaviour, for students, professionalism for staff and their outcomes. Students have upper quartile targets and we strive to reach these rather than accepting national median rates, especially for those groups of students who nationally make less progress, for example, those who are disadvantaged. Recently rebranded from Tollbar Multi Academy Trust in September 2022.