Victoria Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
Victoria Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 April 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Victoria Infant and Nursery 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 2 miles away, the 5th longest of 13 Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- In Reception 2026 there were 53 first-choice applications for 58 offers; 52 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- Also for Reception 2026, 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 3.5% of pupils were eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.3% 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
- Oxford Street, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 5QN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 228 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, arrive at school happy and ready to learn.”
- “Staff greet them with a warm smile each morning.”
- “Pupils know that adults are there to look after them and to help with any problems that they may have.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the school is still working to identify the specific knowledge and vocabulary that the pupils should learn in each year group.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 53 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 52 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.
- Victoria Academy 0.2 mi Outstanding
- St Paul's CofE Junior School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Newbarns Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Pius X Catholic Primary School, Barrow 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ramsden Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ormsgill Nursery and Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James' CofE Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good