Lumbertubs Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Northampton, West Northamptonshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Northamptonshire Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2025 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lumbertubs Primary School is a primary school in Northampton, West Northamptonshire for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 January 2023. West Northamptonshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2025 to 2026 entry.
Lumbertubs 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 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 70% was the 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in West Northamptonshire.
- Every Reception applicant in 2026 was offered a place, as at 124 of the 141 other West Northamptonshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Northamptonshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tonmead Road, Northampton, NN3 8HZ
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- West Northamptonshire
- Pupils on roll
- 222 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 January 2023
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming and caring school.”
- “New pupils and visitors are made to feel at home.”
- “Pupils care for and support each other.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, leaders have not identified the precise knowledge that they want pupils to learn over time.”
- “Leaders are still working out the order in which subject content should be taught and recapped.”
- “However, the number of pupils who are regularly absent from school is too high.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 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) | 70% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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 West Northamptonshire.
- Lings Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodvale Primary Academy 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Arbours Primary Academy 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Thorplands Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Headlands Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blackthorn Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Boothville Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published