Milburn School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Penrith, 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 🔒
Milburn School is a primary school in Penrith, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Some aspects not as strong, from the inspection on 11 February 2025. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Milburn 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
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 11 February 2025, was that some aspects are not as strong, following a Good grade on 24 November 2015.
- With 19 pupils on roll in January 2026, there are 6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- Reception 2026 drew 3 first-choice applications for 3 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 5 places.
- Of its pupils, 21.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.1% 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
- Milburn, Penrith, CA10 1TN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 19 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Some aspects not as strong Inspected 11 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils arrive at school each morning happy and with a smile.”
- “They are met with a warm welcome by staff who know and understand them well.”
- “The school is a happy and nurturing place in which to learn.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school has not ensured that pupils build secure and deep knowledge consistently well.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school has not ensured that this knowledge is carefully sequenced.”
- “This makes it more difficult for pupils to build on the important information that they have learned in previous years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 April 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 3 first-preference applications, 3 offers in total, 3 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.
- Kirkby Thore School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Culgaith CofE School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Long Marton School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Temple Sowerby CofE Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bolton Primary School 4.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Appleby Primary School 5.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Morland Area CofE Primary School 5.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Langwathby CofE Primary School 6.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published