Nenthead Primary School
Community school · Alston · CA9 3LS
Ages 4–11 · 17 pupils · Westmorland and Furness
Ofsted
Good
Overall absence
4.5%
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-06-11
- 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
- 3.4%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 0.0%
- Enrolments in measure
- 21
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
17 pupils · 28 places
- Pupils on roll
- 17
- Boys / girls
- 10 / 7
- School capacity
- 28
- Capacity fill
- 17 / 28 (61%)
- Free school meals
- 5.9%
- FSM pupils
- 1
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Community school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
- Federation
- Alston Moor Federation
- Headteacher
- Mr Rob Dawson
Location
- Address
- Nenthead
- Postcode
- CA9 3LS
- Town
- Alston
- County
- Cumbria
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- District
- Westmorland and Furness
- 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 community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Alston, Westmorland and Furness, 17 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 5.9%.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Rob Dawson
- Telephone
- 01434381400