Crosscrake CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 2–11 · 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 🔒
Crosscrake CofE Primary School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 2–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Crosscrake 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; 13 places are published for Reception 2027.
- With 55 pupils on roll in January 2026, there are 14.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.6 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 1 March 2023, was that the school remains Good; 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness are rated Good.
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
- Stainton, Kendal, LA8 0LB
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 55 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at this small school arrive each day happy and eager to learn.”
- “Pupils talk enthusiastically about all the things that they can do.”
- “They enjoy the many opportunities that leaders provide.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders have not clearly identified the key vocabulary that they want pupils to have.”
- “When key vocabulary is not taught, some pupils struggle to access new learning in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 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.
- St Patrick's CofE School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Levens CofE School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Old Hutton CofE School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Heron Hill Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vicarage Park CofE Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ghyllside Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published