Bolton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Appleby-in-Westmorland, 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 🔒
Bolton Primary School is a primary school in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Bolton Primary 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
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 11% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, there were 4 first-choice applications for 4 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- It had 14.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
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
- Bolton, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CA16 6AW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 56 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Bolton Primary School.”
- “Leaders’ values of ‘caring, inspiring, enjoying and excelling’ are lived out by pupils, including children in the early years.”
- “Pupils are kind and caring towards each other.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders have not ensured that teachers consistently address errors and misconceptions in pupils’ work.”
- “This means that some pupils’ learning is not as secure as it should be in some subjects.”
- “However, on occasion, in some lessons, a few pupils’ behaviour disrupts the learning of others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 2023 (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) | 67% | 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: 4 first-preference applications, 4 offers in total, 4 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.
- Long Marton School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kirkby Thore School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Morland Area CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Temple Sowerby CofE Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Appleby Primary School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Milburn School 4.1 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Culgaith CofE School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Crosby Ravensworth CofE School 5.1 mi Not judged Last distance published