Armathwaite School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Carlisle, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Not published
From Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Armathwaite School is a primary school in Carlisle, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 30 September 2022. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Armathwaite School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | Not published |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026 had 6 first-choice applications for 6 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 3 of the 13 Reception applications in 2026 (23%) came from families living outside Westmorland and Furness, and 2 offers went to them.
- 80% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), and 20% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 80% for 2024/25 was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Westmorland and Furness schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Armathwaite, Station Road, Carlisle, CA4 9PW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 64 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 30 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy coming to Armathwaite School.”
- “Leaders’ belief that ‘it takes a whole community to raise a child’ is exemplified through the positive relationships that pupils have with staff and the wider school community.”
- “Pupils feel that staff listen to their ideas and any worries that they may have.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of subjects, leaders have not provided sufficient training for some staff so that they can deliver the curriculum as well as they should.”
- “This means that some pupils do not learn as well as they could in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 80% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 6 first-preference applications, 6 offers in total, 6 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Westmorland and Furness.
- High Hesket CofE School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kirkoswald CofE School 4.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Calthwaite CofE School 4.5 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Lazonby C of E Primary School 5.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Ivegill CofE School 5.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Plumpton School 5.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Skelton School 8.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Langwathby CofE Primary School 8.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published