Bowness-on-Solway Primary School
Foundation school · Wigton · CA7 5AF
Ages 3–11 · 40 pupils · Cumberland
Ofsted
Standards maintained
Overall absence
2.8%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Standards maintained
Inspection date
2025-06-09
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 2.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 35
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
2
Places offered
2
1st-preference offers
2
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 2
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 2
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
40 pupils · 105 places
- Pupils on roll
- 40
- Boys / girls
- 25 / 15
- School capacity
- 105
- Capacity fill
- 40 / 105 (38%)
- Free school meals
- 17.5%
- FSM pupils
- 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Foundation school
Age range
Ages 3–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Supported by a trust
- Headteacher
- Mr Robert Lakin
Location
- Address
- Bowness-on-Solway
- Postcode
- CA7 5AF
- Town
- Wigton
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- District
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed foundation school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Wigton, Cumberland, 40 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 17.5%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Robert Lakin
- Telephone
- 01697351384