Langwathby CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Penrith, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.80 miles
Published by Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Langwathby CofE Primary School is a primary school in Penrith, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Langwathby CofE 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 | 3.80 mi |
| 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, the last child offered a place lived 3.80 miles from the school, nearer than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- It has 23 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19 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
- Salkeld Road, Langwathby, Penrith, CA10 1ND
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “Children in the Nursery skip happily into class at the start of the day.”
- “They cannot wait to play with their favourite toys.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects, the school’s oversight of the impact of the curriculum is less effective.”
- “This limits the school’s ability to make any improvements to the curriculum in these subjects, should this be necessary.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 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) | 63% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 26 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.
- Beaconside CofE Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lazonby C of E Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Culgaith CofE School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith 4.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brunswick School 4.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- North Lakes School 4.3 mi Good
- Kirkoswald CofE School 4.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Plumpton School 4.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published