Cartmel Priory CofE School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
14.40 miles
Published by Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cartmel Priory CofE School is a secondary school in Grange-over-Sands, Westmorland and Furness for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2025 entry.
Cartmel Priory 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | 14.40 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2025, the last child offered a place lived 14.40 miles away; every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 2 years with a published outcome.
- Year 7 2026 drew 63 first-choice applications for 64 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 38% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), while the Attainment 8 score was 47.2 (England 46).
- There are 19.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 17.7 across the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Headless Cross, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 7SA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 371 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 19 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Cartmel Priory School.”
- “All pupils belong as part of one family.”
- “They are thoughtful, polite and well-mannered.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils who find learning hard do not access the curriculum as well as they should.”
- “This is because staff do not reduce barriers consistently well.”
- “Where pupils’ attainment in national examinations is not as successful in some areas of the curriculum, leaders have prioritised actions to improve outcomes.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 July 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 38% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 63 first-preference applications, 64 offers in total, 63 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Westmorland and Furness.
- Ulverston Victoria High School 5.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dallam School 7.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dowdales School 9.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow 11.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Kirkbie Kendal School 11.8 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Furness Academy 12.0 mi Good Last distance published
- John Ruskin School 12.7 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- The Queen Katherine School 13.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published