Beaconside CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Penrith, 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 🔒
Beaconside CofE Primary School is a primary school in Penrith, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2024. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Beaconside 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
- In 2024/25, 51% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 1% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, there were 49 first-choice applications for 49 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 13.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 11.4% 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
- Hutton Hill, Beaconside C of E Primary School, Penrith, CA11 8EN
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 445 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 27 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, arrive at school happy and ready to learn.”
- “They are greeted each morning with a warm smile from staff.”
- “Pupils look forward to their interesting lessons, particularly when they work outside in the school grounds.”
To improve
- “However, the links between learning in the early years and key stage 1 are not clearly laid out.”
- “As a result, pupils are less able to build on their prior learning when they move into Year 1.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school is still developing its approaches to assessment.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 September 2024 (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) | 51% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 49 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.
- Brunswick School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- North Lakes School 0.8 mi Good
- Yanwath Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Clifton Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stainton CofE Primary School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Langwathby CofE Primary School 3.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Plumpton School 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published