Longtown Primary School
Academy sponsor led · Carlisle · CA6 5UG
Ages 3–11 · 182 pupils · Cumberland
Ofsted
Improved significantly
KS2 expected (RWM)
50%
Overall absence
6.4%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Improved significantly
Inspection date
2025-05-06
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 109.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.7%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 155
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
22
Places offered
22
1st-preference offers
22
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 24
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 22
- 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).
182 pupils · 189 places
- Pupils on roll
- 182
- Boys / girls
- 88 / 94
- School capacity
- 189
- Capacity fill
- 182 / 189 (96%)
- Free school meals
- 25.9%
- FSM pupils
- 42
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
Age range
Ages 3–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Governance
- Academy trust: CUMBRIA EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- CUMBRIA EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Cumbria Education Trust
- Headteacher
- Miss Anna Carroll
Location
- Address
- Mary Street, Longtown
- Postcode
- CA6 5UG
- Town
- Carlisle
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- District
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle
- Urban/rural
- Larger 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 academy sponsor led (primary), Ages 3–11, in Carlisle, Cumberland, 182 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 25.9%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Anna Carroll
- Telephone
- 01228791203