Langdale CofE School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Ambleside, 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 🔒
Langdale CofE School is a primary school in Ambleside, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Langdale CofE 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
- Its latest Ofsted inspection, on 3 March 2026, gave no single grade; the previous graded outcome was Good, on 28 June 2012.
- For Reception 2026 there were 3 first-choice applications for 3 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The published admission number for Reception 2027 is 8 places, with 31 pupils on roll in January 2026.
- There are 8.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 14.7 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
- Chapel Stile, Great Langdale, Ambleside, LA22 9JE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 31 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 8.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 3 March 2026
Strengths
- “Many pupils attend school regularly.”
- “Pupils arrive at school each morning happy and eager to learn.”
- “Staff get to know each pupil well and build warm and caring relationships with them.”
To improve
- “While many pupils enjoy learning, some do not achieve as well as they could.”
- “This is because governors have overseen a decline in the quality of education that pupils receive.”
- “Some pupils are not able to write clearly or work confidently with numbers.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 May 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 3 first-preference applications, 3 offers in total, 3 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.
- Grasmere CofE Primary School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ambleside CofE Primary School 3.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Coniston CofE Primary School 4.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School 5.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Goodly Dale Primary School 7.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Windermere 7.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Martin & St Mary Church of England Primary School 7.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Patterdale CofE Primary School 8.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published