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Millom Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Lapstone Road, Millom LA18 4LP · millom-inf.cumbria.sch.uk · 01229 772679
On the mapSearch near LA18 4LP
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Feb 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 50
- 46% of 108 places
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 24%
- First language not English
- 2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 9 families put the school first and 9 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 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 20 | 18 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Millom Infant School on 3 February 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention
- Achievement: Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Needs attention
- Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement
- Inspected
- 3 Feb 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Needs attention |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Needs attention |
| Achievement | Urgent improvement |
| Attendance and behaviour | Needs attention |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Urgent improvement |
| Leadership and governance | Urgent improvement |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Jun 2023
Other inspections
Report cards, from November 2025
- Jul 2026Monitoring visit
September 2019 to November 2025
- Mar 2025Monitoring visitEffective action
- Jul 2024Monitoring visitEffective action
Jun 2023Inadequate
Quality of education Inadequate Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Effective Nov 2021Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Feb 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Oct 2007Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (14 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Positive
- 93%
- Replies
- 14
- 25% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 79% who raised concerns