Holy Family Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.91 miles
Published by Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holy Family Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 December 2022. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Holy Family Catholic 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 | 0.91 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2025: the last child offered a place lived 0.91 miles from the school, and every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 2 years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 25 first-choice applications for 29 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Ostley Bank, Newbarns, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 9LR
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 217 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “They are safe and secure here.”
- “Children in the early years cannot wait to find their favourite activities when they arrive each day.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects, leaders’ work to identify some of the smaller steps of learning is at an earlier stage.”
- “This makes it more difficult for teachers to make sure that pupils learn everything that they need to know in these subjects in readiness for the next class.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 February 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) | 62% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 25 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.
- Newbarns Primary and Nursery School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Victoria Infant and Nursery School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Victoria Academy 0.7 mi Outstanding
- Parkside Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Yarlside Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ramsden Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cambridge Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published