The School Record

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

Pennington CofE School

URN 112284 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Westmorland and Furness

Pennington, Ulverston, LA12 0RR

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, 28 families named Pennington CofE School as their first preference, and the school made 29 offers.

That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 45% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 45% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.16 in 2021–2022 and 0.98 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 28 66 29 0.97
2024 23 43 23 1.00
2023 40 76 30 1.33
2022 35 52 29 1.21
2021 32 68 29 1.10
2020 22 55 23 0.96
2019 25 43 25 1.00
2018 18 36 19 0.95
2017 13 30 13 1.00
2016 20 35 21 0.95
2015 30 58 30 1.00
2014 27 55 27 1.00

“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 inspections from 2020 to 202520202025

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 30 April 2025

Standards maintained

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 10 March 2020

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 65.0% 6.0% 108.0 106.0
2023/24 71.0% 5.0% 106.0 107.0
2022/23 72.0% 8.0% 106.0 107.0

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 8.2 6.6 0.0 1.6 19.5%
2023/24 8.8 6.8 1.0 1.0 22.7%
2022/23 8.8 8.8 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 9.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 8.2 7.0 1.0 0.2 14.6%
2019/20 9.2 8.2 0.0 1.0 10.9%

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 Pennington 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.