Newbarns Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Barrow-in-Furness, 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 🔒
Newbarns Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 29 April 2025. Westmorland and Furness has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Newbarns Primary and Nursery 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, 47% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, whereas in 2024 places ran out and a last distance was published.
- Reception 2026 drew 44 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 11.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 18.3% 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
- Rising Side, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 9ET
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Westmorland and Furness
- Pupils on roll
- 444 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 29 April 2025
Strengths
- “It has high expectations for pupils and wants the best for them, regardless of their starting points.”
- “Together with the trust, the school has designed a rich curriculum for all pupils from the Nursery class to Year 6.”
- “It places the best interests of pupils and their needs at the heart of the decisions that are made to develop the curriculum.”
To improve
- “In some curriculum subjects that the school is still refining, the important knowledge that pupils should know is not defined clearly.”
- “This makes it difficult for the school to ensure that pupils’ learning builds securely in these subjects.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school does not swiftly and clearly identify any insecurities in pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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) | 47% | 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: 44 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 44 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.
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Victoria Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Parkside Academy 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Yarlside Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cambridge Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Victoria Academy 0.8 mi Outstanding
- Ramsden Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published