Heron Hill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Kendal, 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 🔒
Heron Hill Primary School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 October 2022. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Heron Hill 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, 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 56 first-choice applications for 56 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 7.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 13.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- The school has 22.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.3 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
- Hayfell Avenue, Kendal, LA9 7JH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 419 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2022
Strengths
- “Heron Hill is a happy school where pupils learn, grow and play together.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all pupils in the school.”
- “Children in Nursery learn to concentrate on their learning.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, there is less information for adults about this key knowledge.”
- “This makes it more difficult for teachers to make sure that pupils learn everything they need to know in readiness for future learning.”
- “However, leaders have not thought as carefully about the key texts and authors which are important for older pupils to experience.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 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) | 69% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 56 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.
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vicarage Park CofE Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ghyllside Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castle Park School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stramongate Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Oswald's CofE Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published