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Selside Endowed CofE Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Voluntary aided
Selside, Kendal LA8 9LB · selside.cumbria.sch.uk · 01539 823649
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2024
- Key stage 2, 2022/23
- 71%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Westmorland and Furness 60%, England 60%
- 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
- 33
- 45% of 73 places
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 0%
- First language not English
- 0%
- 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, 4 families put the school first and 4 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 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2022/23, 71% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Westmorland and Furness it was 60%, and across England 60%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| hidden | 62% | ||
| hidden | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| hidden | 106 | ||
| hidden | 105 | ||
| hidden | 105 | ||
hidden: too few pupils to publish
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 20 March 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Selside Endowed CofE Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 20 Mar 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Nov 2011Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Jun 2007Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (21 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 21
- 58% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 86% who raised concerns
based on the 33% who had a child bullied