Lazonby C of E Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Penrith, 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 🔒
Lazonby C of E Primary School is a primary school in Penrith, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2023. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Lazonby C of E 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, as were all applicants at 23 of the 96 other Westmorland and Furness primary schools with a published Reception 2025 outcome.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 9 first-choice applications for 9 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 12th highest of 111 Westmorland and Furness primary schools.
- There are 24.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.9 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
- Lazonby, Penrith, CA10 1BL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 112 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at Lazonby Church of England Primary School.”
- “They arrive at school every morning eager to learn.”
- “They are warmly welcomed into school by their teachers.”
To improve
- “Leaders have not provided subject leaders with sufficient training.”
- “This means that, in some subjects, subject leaders do not have the expertise to lead their subject effectively from the early years to Year 6.”
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders have not provided support for teachers to ensure that they have the knowledge that they need to deliver the curriculum well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 March 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) | 0% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 9 offers in total, 9 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.
- Kirkoswald CofE School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Plumpton School 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Langwathby CofE Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Armathwaite School 5.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Calthwaite CofE School 5.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- High Hesket CofE School 5.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Beaconside CofE Primary School 6.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith 6.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published