Vicarage Park CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Vicarage Park CofE Primary School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 February 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Vicarage Park 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
- For Reception 2026 there were 5 first-choice applications for 5 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 20.2% 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.
- The school has 17 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.7 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
- Vicarage Drive, Kendal, LA9 5BP
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 109 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 2 February 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders, staff and pupils are proud of their warm and welcoming school.”
- “There is a strong sense of belonging in this vibrant learning community.”
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, feel happy and safe.”
To improve
- “That said, in a few subjects, teachers do not use assessment strategies as effectively as they should to check on how well pupils are learning the curriculum over time.”
- “This means that sometimes, some pupils develop gaps in their knowledge and vocabulary.”
- “Some pupils, however, do not read with as much fluency as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 5 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 5 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.
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ghyllside Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Heron Hill Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stramongate Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castle Park School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Thomas's CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's CofE Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published