Graded inspection · Jan 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Westmorland and FurnessSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry69 applications · 50 places offered · 50 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2026 1.4; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2025 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2024 1.1; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2023 1.6; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2022 1.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2021 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2020 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2019 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2018 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2017 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2016 1.4; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2015 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2014 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- This school
- Westmorland and Furness median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 50 | 69 | 1.4 | 50 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 44 | 56 | 1.3 | 44 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 90 | 102 | 1.1 | 90 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 55 | 85 | 1.6 | 55 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 62 | 74 | 1.2 | 63 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2021 | 48 | 72 | 1.5 | 46 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 67 | 85 | 1.3 | 67 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 42 | 56 | 1.3 | 38 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2018 | 61 | 81 | 1.3 | 61 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 64 | 83 | 1.3 | 62 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 | 51 | 72 | 1.4 | 50 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 | 67 | 85 | 1.3 | 63 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2014 | 61 | 77 | 1.3 | 61 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 54 | 50.2 | 67% | 80% | – |
| 2024/25 | 66 | 47.7 | 41% | 65% | – |
| 2023/24 | 49 | 48.6 | 47% | 63% | −0.02 |
| 2022/23 | 57 | 44.8 | 32% | 68% | +0.01 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Kirkby Stephen Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.4applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 15.3 km · Westmorland and Furness20261.4applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 20.1 km · Westmorland and FurnessGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 29.0 km · Westmorland and Furness20262.1applications per place 49.3Attainment 8
- 29.7 km · County DurhamStandards maintained20251.3applications per place 57.0Attainment 8
- 30.7 km · Westmorland and FurnessRemains Good · concerns noted20241.6applications per place 47.5Attainment 8
- 32.9 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20231.8applications per place 39.5Attainment 8
- 33.3 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20231.4applications per place 65.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 34.4 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20221.9applications per place 58.4Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 137107 · 943/5406
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 545 pupils · 377 on roll
- Free school meals
- 20.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2011
- Replaced
- Kirkby Stephen Grammar School (URN 112433)
- Address
- Christian Head, Kirkby Stephen, CA17 4HA
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources