Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Westmorland and Furness
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 | |||
| Early years 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 entry112 applications · 48 places offered · 44 named it first
- 2026 2.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.9
- 2025 2.0; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.9
- 2024 1.9; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7
- 2023 2.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 2.1; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2021 2.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2020 2.5; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 2.8; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 2.2; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 2.1; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 2.6; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.4; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.3; Westmorland and Furness median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Westmorland and Furness median
Dashed bars: as Newbarns Primary & Nursery School (URN 112244), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 48 | 112 | 2.3 | 44 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 52 | 102 | 2.0 | 47 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2024 | 60 | 112 | 1.9 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2023 * | 48 | 103 | 2.2 | 45 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2022 * | 57 | 117 | 2.1 | 55 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2021 * | 60 | 131 | 2.2 | 51 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2020 * | 50 | 123 | 2.5 | 44 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2019 * | 59 | 162 | 2.8 | 70 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 130 | 2.2 | 54 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 126 | 2.1 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 153 | 2.6 | 59 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2015 * | 59 | 141 | 2.4 | 67 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2014 * | 59 | 138 | 2.3 | 65 | 1.10 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 68% · Writing 57% · Maths 62% → all three 47% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Westmorland and Furness median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 47% | 4% | 104 | 102 |
| 2023/24 | 49% | 3% | 104 | 103 |
| 2022/23 | 64% | 4% | 105 | 103 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Newbarns Primary and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 0.3 km · Westmorland and FurnessRemains Good20222.2applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Westmorland and FurnessRemains Good20241.8applications per place
- 1.0 km · Westmorland and FurnessRemains Good202344%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Westmorland and Furness20261.7applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · Westmorland and FurnessGraded · no overall grade20242.7applications per place 97%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Westmorland and Furness20261.4applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Westmorland and FurnessOutstanding202465%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Westmorland and FurnessGood20222.0applications per place
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 149961 · 943/2712
- Capacity
- 459 pupils · 444 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 October 2023
- Replaced
- Newbarns Primary & Nursery School (URN 112244)
- Address
- Rising Side, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 9ET
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources