The School Record

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

Chetwynde School

URN 141106 · All Through · Free schools · Westmorland and Furness

Rating Lane, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 0NY

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, 33 families named Chetwynde School as their first preference, and the school made 29 offers.

That is 1.14 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 87% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 87% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.91 in 2021–2022 and 1.09 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 33 95 29 1.14
2024 31 80 30 1.03
2023 28 76 30 0.93
2022 23 67 24 0.96
2021 25 68 29 0.86
2020 33 73 30 1.10
2019 18 63 22 0.82
2018 30 81 25 1.20
2017 26 98 24 1.08
2016 38 100 24 1.58
2015 34 96 23 1.48

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 7 November 2023

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 44.20 - 58.9% 12.5%
2023/24 44.00 -0.39
likely between -0.76 and -0.01		 56.9% 10.3%
2022/23 42.20 -0.44
likely between -0.78 and -0.10		 58.8% 13.2%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 70.0% 7.0% 105.0 104.0
2023/24 57.0% 7.0% 106.0 106.0
2022/23 60.0% 8.0% 107.0 103.0

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
2020/21 31.9 28.5 2.0 1.4 10.7%
2015/16 39.9 31.0 2.2 6.8 22.6%

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.

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.