Burlington CofE School
Voluntary controlled school · Kirkby-in-Furness · LA17 7UH
Ages 3–11 · 76 pupils · Westmorland and Furness
Ofsted
Good
Overall absence
4.0%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2023-06-22
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
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
- 2.3%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 55
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
4
Places offered
4
1st-preference offers
4
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 7
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 4
- 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).
76 pupils · 84 places
- Pupils on roll
- 76
- Boys / girls
- 47 / 29
- School capacity
- 84
- Capacity fill
- 76 / 84 (90%)
- Free school meals
- 6.6%
- FSM pupils
- 5
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 3–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Carlisle
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Powell
Location
- Address
- School Road
- Postcode
- LA17 7UH
- Town
- Kirkby-in-Furness
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- District
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness
- 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 voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Kirkby-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, 76 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 6.6%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Carlisle.
New to reading school data? See Ofsted ratings explained and how to compare schools.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Powell
- Telephone
- 01229889210