Ghyllside Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
Ghyllside Primary School is a primary school in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 July 2025. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Ghyllside 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
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 78% met the expected standard, 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Westmorland and Furness that have results.
- In 2024/25, 3% reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%), while 78% met the expected standard (England 62%).
- For Reception 2025, every applicant was offered a place, as at 23 of the 96 other Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- The school has 23.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.3 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
- Gillinggate, Kendal, LA9 4JB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 424 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 July 2025
Strengths
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are positive and nurturing at this school.”
- “Pupils are confident that they are valued by staff and are listened to.”
- “Pupils behave well in lessons and at social times.”
To improve
- “However, this strength is not reflected across other areas of the curriculum where its delivery is not as effective.”
- “This means there is variability in how well pupils learn, and they have gaps in their knowledge.”
- “However, across key stages 1 and 2, there is variability in how effectively staff deliver the new curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 September 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) | 78% | 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: 59 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Vicarage Park CofE Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stramongate Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Heron Hill Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas's CofE Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Castle Park School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Oswald's CofE Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published