Graded inspection · May 2025 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry85 applications · 59 places offered · 54 named it first
Small intakeFewer than 60 places, so not ranked.
- 2026 1.4; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2025 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2024 1.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6
- 2023 1.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2022 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2021 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2020 1.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2019 1.8; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2018 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2017 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2016 1.6; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2015 1.6; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2014 1.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Westmorland and Furness median
Dashed bars: as Walney School (URN 112389), the previous school.
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 | 59 | 85 | 1.4 | 54 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 68 | 100 | 1.5 | 65 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 | 92 | 107 | 1.2 | 84 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2023 | 103 | 120 | 1.2 | 93 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2022 | 66 | 97 | 1.5 | 62 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2021 | 112 | 145 | 1.3 | 97 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2020 | 137 | 175 | 1.3 | 123 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2019 | 68 | 122 | 1.8 | 66 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 | 95 | 139 | 1.5 | 95 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 95 | 146 | 1.5 | 95 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 112 | 182 | 1.6 | 111 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2015 | 120 | 190 | 1.6 | 117 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2014 * | 130 | 200 | 1.5 | 130 | 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.) | 110 | 40.5 | 27% | 53% | – |
| 2024/25 | 114 | 38.7 | 22% | 41% | – |
| 2023/24 | 61 | 34.4 | 25% | 41% | −1.20 |
| 2022/23 | 99 | 40.6 | 33% | 58% | −0.84 |
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
- Walney AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 40.5Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20231.6applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20237.4applications per place 38.5Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20221.7applications per place 38.5Attainment 8
- 7.8 km · Westmorland and FurnessStandards maintained20252.3applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 12.1 km · Cumberland20261.2applications per place 42.5Attainment 8
- 14.2 km · Westmorland and FurnessGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 48.3Attainment 8
- 22.7 km · Westmorland and Furness20261.4applications per place 49.8Attainment 8
- 25.4 km · LancashireGood20223.0applications per place 37.0Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 141041 · 943/4003
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 468 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Replaced
- Walney School (URN 112389)
- Address
- Sandy Gap Lane, Walney, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 3JT
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources