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Tebay Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Tebay, Penrith CA10 3XB · tebay.cumbria.sch.uk · 01539 624239
On the mapSearch near CA10 3XB
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2020
- Key stage 2, 2023/24
- 57%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Westmorland and Furness 58%, England 61%
- 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
- 49
- 70% of 70 places
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 37.2%
- 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 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2023/24, 57% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% the higher standard. Across Westmorland and Furness it was 58%, and across England 61%.
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 | ||
| Grammar and spelling | hidden | 105 | |
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 141839)
hidden: too few pupils to publish
Ofsted
Tebay Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 10 March 2020, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jun 2025 found: Some aspects not as strong.
- Outcome
- Some aspects not as strong
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Mar 2020
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 112186), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Mar 2020Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2010Good
Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 112186)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (17 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 17
- 40% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 35% who had a child bullied