Croftlands Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Ulverston, 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 🔒
Croftlands Infant School is a primary school in Ulverston, Westmorland and Furness for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 November 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Croftlands Infant 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 drew 27 first-choice applications for 35 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 111 Westmorland and Furness primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception 2026 place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- With 119 pupils on roll (January 2026 census), there are 18.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 9.5% 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
- Oakwood Drive, Ulverston, LA12 9JU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 119 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to attend Croftlands Infant School.”
- “They enjoy playing with their friends at playtimes.”
- “Children in the early years, including two-year-olds, settle into school life well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects and areas of learning, the key knowledge that children and pupils should gain is not as clear.”
- “This means that teachers do not routinely place the right emphasis on the knowledge that the pupils need for future learning.”
- “This sometimes prevents pupils from developing a detailed understanding and making connections with what they have learned before.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 27 first-preference applications, 35 offers in total, 27 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.
- Croftlands Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Ulverston 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sir John Barrow School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Church Walk CofE Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pennington CofE School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Low Furness CofE Primary School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Lindal and Marton Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Dalton-In-Furness 3.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published