Raughton Head CofE School & Nursery
Ofsted: Improved significantlyVoluntary controlled school · Primary
Carlisle · CA5 7DD · Cumberland
Ages 3–11
- Absence3.7%
- FSM9.1%
- Demand1.00
3.0 miles away
OpenPrimaryOfsted: GoodURN 112303
Ivegill CofE School
Voluntary aided school · Carlisle · CA4 0PA
Ages 4–11 · 75 pupils · Westmorland and Furness
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
69%
Overall absence
4.6%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-07-02
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- 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)
Expected standard (RWM)69%
Higher standard (RWM)15%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 108.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
Overall absence4.6%
Persistent absence (10%+)10.7%
Unauthorised1.7%
- Authorised absence
- 3.0%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 75
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
12
Places offered
12
1st-preference offers
12
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 19
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 12
- Applications from outside LA
- 12
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 9
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).
Capacity fill83%
75 pupils · 90 places
- Pupils on roll
- 75
- Boys / girls
- 47 / 28
- School capacity
- 90
- Capacity fill
- 75 / 90 (83%)
- Free school meals
- 17.3%
- FSM pupils
- 13
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- 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 Trickett
Location
- Address
- Ivegill
- Postcode
- CA4 0PA
- Town
- Carlisle
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- District
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway
- Urban/rural
- Smaller rural: Nearer to 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 4–11, in Carlisle, Westmorland and Furness, 75 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 17.3%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Carlisle.
Nearby primary schools
Open schools within about 3 miles, prioritising the same phase where possible. Distances are approximate from GIAS coordinates.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Matthew Trickett
- Telephone
- 01697473397