The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Levens CofE School

URN 112262 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Westmorland and Furness

Church Road Levens, Kendal, LA8 8PU

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 9 families named Levens CofE School as their first preference, and the school made 9 offers.

No per-place figure is published for this year: the school offered 9 places, too few for a ratio to mean anything.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 9 19 9 -
2024 9 22 9 -
2023 17 25 15 1.13
2022 19 29 15 1.27
2021 16 31 16 1.00
2020 15 21 15 1.00
2019 10 17 10 1.00
2018 8 15 8 -
2017 3 9 3 -
2016 3 6 3 -
2015 13 21 14 0.93
2014 5 8 5 -

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 31 January 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 38.0% 13.0% 107.0 99.0
2023/24 - - - -
2022/23 50.0% 0.0% 108.0 102.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 6.0 5.0 0.0 1.0 16.7%
2023/24 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 5.0 4.0 0.0 1.0 20.0%
2021/22 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 3.6 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 4.2 3.6 0.0 0.6 14.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Levens CofE School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.