United Kingdom / Regions / Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness
North West, England · population ~225k · 147 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019 (predecessor avg)
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 123 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Westmorland and Furness
147 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (123 of 147 here), 95.8% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 147 schools.
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Ullswater Community College | Secondary | 1,535 | Good | 18/04/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ulverston Victoria High School | Secondary | 1,336 | Good· | 30/09/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Furness Academy | Secondary | 1,188 | Good | 13/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Elizabeth School | Secondary | 1,156 | Good | 12/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Kirkbie Kendal School | Secondary | 1,041 | Good· | 09/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith | Secondary | 1,036 | Good | 24/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Queen Katherine School | Secondary | 917 | Good | 30/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Dallam School | Secondary | 878 | Requires Improvement | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Dowdales School | Secondary | 827 | Not graded | 05/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow | Secondary | 674 | Good | 27/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Walney School | Secondary | 518 | Not graded | 07/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Chetwynde School | Secondary | 514 | Good | 07/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Beaconside CofE Primary School | Primary | 461 | Good· | 27/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ghyllside Primary School | Primary | 449 | Good· | 15/07/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Lakes School | Secondary | 439 | Good | 15/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Newbarns Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 439 | Not graded | 29/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Heron Hill Primary School | Primary | 424 | Good· | 05/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Kirkby Stephen Grammar School | Secondary | 388 | Good | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Martin & St Mary Church of England Primary School | Primary | 361 | Good· | 13/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Appleby Grammar School | Secondary | 360 | Good | 26/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.