Stramongate Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Kendal, Westmorland and Furness
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Westmorland and Furness Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stramongate Primary School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Stramongate 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, as at 23 of the 96 other Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 24.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 12.5% 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
- Blackhall Road, Kendal, LA9 4BT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 237 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this school.”
- “Staff build nurturing relationships with pupils.”
- “They help them to feel safe and to live out the school’s values of respect, responsibility and resilience.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, these activities do not precisely match the important knowledge that the school intends them to learn.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not deepen their knowledge and build on this securely over time.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, these processes are still being refined.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 June 2025 (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) | 73% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- St Thomas's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ghyllside Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castle Park School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Vicarage Park CofE Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Heron Hill Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's CofE Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published