Low Furness CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Ulverston, 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 🔒
Low Furness CofE Primary School is a primary school in Ulverston, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 21 January 2025. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Low Furness 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, 67% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 11 first-choice applications for 14 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 4.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 10.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- The school has 14.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.2 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, Great Urswick, Ulverston, LA12 0TA
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 127 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 21 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils find this school a happy place to be.”
- “They live out the school values, including compassion, honesty and friendship.”
- “Pupils treat each other with kindness and respect.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, however, the school’s curriculum is not designed as well as it is elsewhere.”
- “In these areas, the school has not pinpointed the exact knowledge or skills that it expects pupils to learn.”
- “This hinders staff’s ability to check on what pupils know and understand.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 March 2025 (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) | 67% | 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: 11 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 11 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.
- Lindal and Marton Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pennington CofE School 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Dalton-In-Furness 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Croftlands Infant School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Croftlands Junior School 2.1 mi School remains Good
- Chapel Street Infants and Nursery School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Dalton St Mary's CofE Primary School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- George Romney Junior School 2.3 mi Outstanding