Dean Barwick Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Grange-over-Sands, 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 🔒
Dean Barwick Primary School is a primary school in Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Dean Barwick 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 7 first-choice applications for 7 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; Reception 2027 has 8 places.
- In 2024/25, 20% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reading, writing and maths results for 2024/25 ranked lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness that have results.
- The school had 51 pupils on roll in January 2026 and 12 pupils per teacher (middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness: 18.3).
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
- Witherslack, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 6RS
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 51 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils really enjoy coming to Dean Barwick Primary.”
- “There is a real sense of family and community in this small rural school.”
- “They said that all staff look after them and treat them fairly.”
To improve
- “However, leaders are at an early stage in checking that staff are successfully implementing this revised curriculum so that pupils have no gaps in their learning.”
- “This is a recent initiative and they have not checked how well this new approach is being implemented.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 2023 (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) | 20% | 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: 7 first-preference applications, 7 offers in total, 7 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.
- Lindale CofE Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Storth CofE School 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Levens CofE School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Arnside National CofE School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Milnthorpe Primary School 4.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Grange CofE Primary School 4.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Cartmel CofE Primary School 4.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Crosthwaite CofE School 4.6 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published