Dent CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Sedbergh, 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 🔒
Dent CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school in Sedbergh, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 January 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Dent CofE Voluntary Aided 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
- Reception 2026 drew 4 first-choice applications for 5 offers: 0.8 first choices per offer, the 6th lowest of 111 Westmorland and Furness primary schools.
- There are 30 pupils on roll (January 2026) and 11.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.7 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness.
- 10% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness is 7.1%.
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
- Laning, Dent, Sedbergh, LA10 5QJ
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 30 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 11.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this small and joyful school.”
- “They form strong and trusting bonds with staff and with each other.”
- “Pupils treat each other, and staff, with kindness and respect.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, including some areas of learning in the early years, the school is still refining its work to ensure that teachers are clear about the key knowledge that pupils should gain.”
- “In these subjects, teachers do not routinely place the right emphasis on the knowledge that the pupils need for future learning.”
- “This sometimes prevents pupils from developing detailed understanding and making connections with what they have learned before.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 4 first-preference applications, 5 offers in total, 4 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.
- Sedbergh Primary School 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE Primary School 7.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Old Hutton CofE School 9.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Grayrigg CofE School 10.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Patrick's CofE School 10.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Crosscrake CofE Primary School 11.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 11.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Castle Park School 11.4 mi Not judged Last distance published