Allithwaite CofE Primary School

About Allithwaite CofE Primary School

Allithwaite CofE Primary School holds a Good rating from its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2022, with leadership and management judged Outstanding. The school’s academic story is best told through its Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 year, where 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits comfortably above the Westmorland and Furness local authority average of 58%, placing the school in the top half of primary schools in the area. In individual subjects, 78% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths separately, and average scaled scores of 108 in reading and 106 in maths are both above the national benchmark of 100. The proportion of pupils achieving the higher standard in reading and maths was 44% in each, though the combined higher standard across all three subjects was 11%. The school ranks 36th out of 99 primary schools in Westmorland and Furness, and 787th out of 2,065 in the North West region.

The school’s Ofsted history shows a shift from its previous Outstanding rating in 2008 to Good in 2013, with the 2022 ungraded inspection confirming it remains Good. Progress scores are not available in the data, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds beyond attainment. The school is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, it received 25 applications for 12 places, with all 12 first-preference applicants offered a place, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.08. This suggests strong local demand. The school has a Church of England religious character and a nursery provision for children aged three and over. It has capacity for 116 pupils and currently enrols 107, with 10.3% of pupils eligible for free school meals, which is below the national average.

Facilities include a library, playing fields, an outdoor playground, a dining hall, a sensory room, art studios, a forest school, music rooms and a chapel. Sports on offer include football, tennis, athletics, rounders, cricket, swimming and gymnastics, and clubs cover drama, choir, chess and book club. The school provides for a range of special educational needs and disabilities, including specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, autistic spectrum disorder and other difficulties or disabilities. This is a small, Church of England village primary that suits families who value strong academic outcomes above the local average, a broad range of facilities and a clear SEND offer, all within a school that is popular enough to be oversubscribed but still accessible to first-preference applicants.

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