Levens CofE School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Kendal, 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 🔒
Levens CofE School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 31 January 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Levens CofE 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, 38% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2026 there were 13 first-choice applications for 13 Reception offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 15 places.
- Of its pupils, 6.1% are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 9.8% 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
- Church Road Levens, Levens, Kendal, LA8 8PU
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 98 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 31 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, enjoy coming to this warm and welcoming school.”
- “They get on well with their classmates and teachers.”
- “Parents and carers who shared their views with inspectors are overwhelmingly positive about the school.”
To improve
- “This has meant that, in these subjects, refinements to the curriculum have not been finalised and recently purchased resources have not had time to become embedded in day-to-day teaching.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 2023 (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) | 38% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.
- Crosscrake CofE Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Milnthorpe Primary School 2.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Patrick's CofE School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dean Barwick Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Storth CofE School 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vicarage Park CofE Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published