Roose School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2 miles
Published by Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Roose School is a primary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 26 June 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Roose 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 2026 | 2 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Of its pupils, 15.8% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 34.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- Reception 2026's last distance offered, 2 miles, was the 5th longest of the 13 Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 30 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- North Row, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 0HF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils really enjoy coming to Roose School.”
- “They are very happy and relish being part of the school community.”
- “Pupils value the vibrant and exciting learning environment.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects, teachers do not support pupils to build on what they already know sufficiently well.”
- “This is because the school has not identified the essential knowledge that pupils need to learn over time.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not progress through these subject curriculums as well as they do in other curriculum areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 July 2024 (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) | 57% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Yarlside Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cambridge Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Newbarns Primary and Nursery School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Parkside Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Greengate Junior School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- St George's CofE School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published