Ramsden Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ramsden Infant School is a primary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 December 2022. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Ramsden 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as were applicants at 23 of the 96 other Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 10 first-choice applications for 10 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- It had 10.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- 26.3% of pupils were eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 45.6% 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
- Thwaite Street, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 1AN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 80 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at Ramsden Infant School.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and arrive each day excited to learn.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, are proud of their successes, and celebrate these with each other and with adults.”
To improve
- “However, leaders do not check well enough how teachers are implementing the curriculum.”
- “As a result, in some subjects, the teaching of the curriculum does not help pupils to know and remember more over time.”
- “In addition, leaders have not fully developed a consistent approach to teachers’ checking of learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 10 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 10 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.
- Greengate Junior School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Parkside Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St George's CofE School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St James' CofE Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Brisbane Park Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Victoria Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cambridge Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published