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Brunswick School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Brunswick Road, Penrith CA11 7LX · brunswick.cumbria.sch.uk · 01768 213200
On the mapSearch near CA11 7LX
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Westmorland and Furness Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 140
- 5 over 135 places · 104%
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 20.7%
- First language not English
- 22.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Westmorland and Furness Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 32 families put the school first and 32 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 32 | 32 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 42 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 35 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 33 | 33 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 33 | 33 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 23 March 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Brunswick School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 23 Mar 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jan 2018
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jan 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (30 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 30
- 19% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 57% who raised concerns
based on the 7% who had a child bullied