Beetham CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · Milnthorpe, 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 🔒
Beetham CofE Primary School is a primary school in Milnthorpe, Westmorland and Furness for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 October 2022. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Beetham 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 6 first-choice applications for 6 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- For Reception 2026, 3 of the 17 applications (18%) came from families living outside Westmorland and Furness, and 1 offer went to them.
- It has 12.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.3 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
- Stanley Street, Beetham, Milnthorpe, LA7 7AS
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 51 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this small and welcoming school.”
- “They embrace leaders’ values of love, perseverance and respect.”
- “Pupils appreciate the friendships that they have with each other across all ages and the positive relationships that they have with staff.”
To improve
- “In these subjects, teachers are less accomplished in using assessment strategies to make sure that pupils have learned all that they should.”
- “At times, this hinders some pupils from remembering more over time.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 6 first-preference applications, 6 offers in total, 6 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.
- Milnthorpe Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Storth CofE School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holme Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Arnside National CofE School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Burton Morewood CofE Primary School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Levens CofE School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Patrick's CofE School 4.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Crosscrake CofE Primary School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published