Crosthwaite CofE School
Voluntary aided school · Kendal · LA8 8HT
Ages 3–11 · 109 pupils · Westmorland and Furness
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding
KS2 expected (RWM)
67%
Overall absence
4.7%
Admissions demand
1.08 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
School remains Outstanding
Inspection date
2023-02-13
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 107.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 104.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 3.9%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 82
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
1.08 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
14
Places offered
13
1st-preference offers
13
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 25
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 13
- Applications from outside LA
- 1
- 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).
109 pupils · 100 places
- Pupils on roll
- 109
- Boys / girls
- 57 / 52
- School capacity
- 100
- Capacity fill
- 109 / 100 (109%)
- Free school meals
- 7.9%
- FSM pupils
- 8
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary aided 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 aided school
- Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Jessop
Location
- Address
- Crosthwaite
- Postcode
- LA8 8HT
- Town
- Kendal
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- District
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale
- 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 aided school (primary), Ages 3–11, in Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, 109 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 7.9%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Carlisle.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Jessop
- Telephone
- 01539568471