Barrow Island Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Barrow-in-Furness, 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 🔒
Barrow Island Community Primary 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 18 April 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Barrow Island Community 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, 54% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 29.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 34.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- The school has 16.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.6 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
- Trinity Street, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 2SJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 162 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 April 2024
Strengths
- “Barrow Island Primary School is a happy and inclusive school where everyone is made to feel welcome.”
- “The school prides itself on its strong community ethos.”
- “Pupils told inspectors that they enjoy coming to school.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes, the books that pupils are given are not well matched to the sounds that they already know.”
- “Where this is the case, these pupils’ reading fluency does not develop as quickly as it could.”
- “However, these changes are still quite new, and more work is needed to fully embed these improvements.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 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) | 54% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- St George's CofE School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greengate Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- South Walney Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South Walney Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ramsden Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Columba's School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brisbane Park Infant School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published