Temple Sowerby CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Penrith, 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 🔒
Temple Sowerby 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 19 January 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Temple Sowerby 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 | 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, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 saw 8 first-choice applications for 8 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; the admission number for Reception 2027 is 8 places.
- 6.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 12.5% 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
- Temple Sowerby, Temple Sowerby Ce School, Penrith, CA10 1RZ
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 49 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy a strong sense of community in this small and welcoming school.”
- “They treat each other with kindness.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, benefit from caring relationships with staff.”
To improve
- “However, on occasion, leaders’ assessment systems do not enable teachers to find out precisely what pupils have remembered and understood.”
- “This means that teachers cannot then devise learning which builds as well as it could on what pupils already know and can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 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) | 75% | 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: 8 first-preference applications, 8 offers in total, 8 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.
- Kirkby Thore School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Culgaith CofE School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Bolton Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Milburn School 3.1 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Morland Area CofE Primary School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Long Marton School 3.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Clifton Primary School 4.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lowther Endowed School 5.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published