Coniston CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Coniston, 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 🔒
Coniston CofE Primary School is a primary school in Coniston, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 28 March 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Coniston 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 2026 Reception, 8 first-choice applications for 9 offers (0.9 per offer, the 10th lowest of 111 Westmorland and Furness primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 27% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure was the lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness that have results.
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
- Shepherd's Bridge, Coniston, LA21 8AL
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 67 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 28 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, enjoy attending this small, caring and friendly village school.”
- “Everyone enjoys positive and nurturing relationships.”
- “Pupils live out the school’s values of being respectful and hardworking.”
To improve
- “However, in other subjects, they do not check as precisely what pupils know.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils do not remember the essential knowledge they will need for future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 May 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) | 27% | 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, 9 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.
- Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Langdale CofE School 4.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ambleside CofE Primary School 6.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Grasmere CofE Primary School 6.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Goodly Dale Primary School 6.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Windermere 6.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Martin & St Mary Church of England Primary School 6.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broughton CofE Primary and Nursery School 8.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published