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South Walney Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Amphitrite Street, Walney, Barrow-in-Furness LA14 3BZ · southwalney-inf.cumbria.sch.uk · 01229 471457
On the mapSearch near LA14 3BZ
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Feb 2024
- 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
- 134
- 56% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 7.6%
- First language not English
- 1.5%
- 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 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 45 | 45 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 29 February 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for South Walney Infant and Nursery School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 28 Feb 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2018
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jul 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 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good May 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (19 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 19
- 11% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 37% who raised concerns
based on the 16% who had a child bullied