Alston Primary School
Alston, CA9 3QU · Westmorland and Furness local authority
Alston’s School Grade D− behind almost every town in England
What stands out about Alston Primary School
- Its own letter, D−: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 4%)
- 36% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26 points below England’s schools
- Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (10 of 10)
- Homes in its postcode sector (CA9 3) sold for a median £227,500; Alston’s is £182,250
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 36%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 3% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Westmorland and Furness avg 59%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Alston Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Westmorland and Furness council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Westmorland and Furness council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Alston and Westmorland and Furness, side by side
2023–2025All 106 graded primaries in Westmorland and Furness. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Alston’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greystoke Primary School | A+ | 2% | 100% |
| Yarlside Academy | A+ | 2% | 94% |
| Temple Sowerby CofE Primary School | A+ | 6% | 87% |
| Yanwath Primary School | A+ | 13% | 84% |
| Skelton School | A+ | 7% | 83% |
| Arnside National CofE School | A | 8% | 82% |
| Brough Community Primary School | A | 19% | 80% |
| Holme Primary School | A | 4% | 77% |
| Grasmere CofE Primary School | A | 6% | 76% |
| Morland Area CofE Primary School | A | 7% | 76% |
| Armathwaite School | A− | 9% | 74% |
| Clifton Primary School | A− | 10% | 74% |
| Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, Kendal | A− | 4% | 74% |
| Kirkby Stephen Primary School | A− | 18% | 73% |
| Milnthorpe Primary School | A− | 12% | 73% |
| Kirkoswald CofE School | A− | 10% | 73% |
| Ivegill CofE School | A− | 17% | 73% |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | A− | 5% | 73% |
| Grange CofE Primary School | A− | 7% | 72% |
| Selside Endowed CofE Primary School | A− | 0% | 71% |
| Stramongate Primary School | A− | 25% | 71% |
| Goodly Dale Primary School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School | B+ | 17% | 70% |
| Broughton CofE Primary and Nursery School | B+ | 10% | 70% |
| Crosthwaite CofE School | B+ | 8% | 70% |
| High Hesket CofE School | B+ | 3% | 69% |
| Pennington CofE School | B+ | 10% | 69% |
| Ghyllside Primary School | B+ | 13% | 69% |
| St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School, Windermere | B+ | 18% | 69% |
| Culgaith CofE School | B+ | 2% | 68% |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Bolton Primary School | B | 13% | 66% |
| Dalton St Mary's CofE Primary School | B | 11% | 66% |
| Staveley CofE School | B | 13% | 65% |
| Penny Bridge CofE School | B | 7% | 65% |
| Victoria Academy | B | 12% | 65% |
| Sir John Barrow School | B− | 13% | 64% |
| George Romney Junior School | B− | 29% | 64% |
| Low Furness CofE Primary School | B− | 5% | 64% |
| St Patrick's CofE School | B− | 6% | 64% |
| Leven Valley CofE Primary School | B− | 2% | 63% |
| Ambleside CofE Primary School | B− | 21% | 63% |
| Heron Hill Primary School | B− | 7% | 62% |
| St Mark's CofE Primary School | B− | 8% | 62% |
| Chetwynde School | B− | 17% | 62% |
| Allithwaite CofE Primary School | B− | 7% | 61% |
| Warcop CofE Primary School | B− | 21% | 61% |
| Parkside Academy | B− | 33% | 61% |
| South Walney Junior School | B− | 22% | 61% |
| Storth CofE School | C+ | 12% | 60% |
| Crosscrake CofE Primary School | C+ | 6% | 60% |
| St Thomas's CofE Primary School | C+ | 23% | 60% |
| Castle Park School | C+ | 8% | 60% |
| Tebay Primary School | C+ | 37% | 60% |
| Grayrigg CofE School | C+ | 12% | 59% |
| Orton CofE School | C+ | 4% | 59% |
| Levens CofE School | C+ | 7% | 58% |
| St Paul's CofE Junior School | C+ | 18% | 58% |
| Greengate Junior School | C | 48% | 57% |
| Sedbergh Primary School | C | 7% | 57% |
| Langwathby CofE Primary School | C | 3% | 57% |
| Old Hutton CofE School | C | 8% | 57% |
| Stainton CofE Primary School | C | 5% | 57% |
| Crosby Ravensworth CofE School | C | 0% | 57% |
| Roose School | C | 16% | 56% |
| Calthwaite CofE School | C | 12% | 56% |
| Dent CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School | C | 10% | 56% |
| Church Walk CofE Primary School | C | 8% | 56% |
| Dane Ghyll Community Primary School and Nursery | C | 5% | 55% |
| St Columba's School | C | 9% | 54% |
| Beaconside CofE Primary School | C | 15% | 54% |
| St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Penrith | C | 14% | 54% |
| Patterdale CofE Primary School | C− | 4% | 53% |
| Newbarns Primary and Nursery School | C− | 12% | 53% |
| Appleby Primary School | C− | 17% | 52% |
| St Martin & St Mary Church of England Primary School | C− | 5% | 52% |
| Burton Morewood CofE Primary School | C− | 15% | 51% |
| Cambridge Primary School | C− | 55% | 51% |
| Asby Endowed School | C− | 30% | 50% |
| Beetham CofE Primary School | C− | 3% | 50% |
| St George's CofE School | C− | 46% | 49% |
| Penruddock Primary School | C− | 2% | 48% |
| Burlington CofE School | C− | 7% | 48% |
| Plumpton School | D | 6% | 47% |
| Askam Village School | D | 9% | 47% |
| Flookburgh CofE Primary School | D | 3% | 46% |
| Ireleth St Peter's CofE Primary School | D | 8% | 46% |
| Croftlands Junior School | D | 15% | 45% |
| St Oswald's CofE Primary School | D | 13% | 45% |
| Nenthead Primary School | D | 6% | 44% |
| Cartmel CofE Primary School | D | 9% | 43% |
| Lindale CofE Primary School | D | 11% | 43% |
| Lowther Endowed School | D | 18% | 43% |
| St James' CofE Junior School | D | 46% | 43% |
| Long Marton School | D | 16% | 42% |
| Barrow Island Community Primary School | D | 30% | 41% |
| Shap Endowed CofE Primary School | D | 15% | 41% |
| Newton Village Academy | D | 8% | 39% |
| North Lakes School | D− | 33% | 38% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow | D− | 34% | 38% |
| Alston Primary School | D− | 18% | 36% |
| Lazonby C of E Primary School | D− | 7% | 32% |
| Threlkeld CofE Primary School | D− | 11% | 32% |
| Ormsgill Nursery and Primary School | D− | 60% | 32% |
| Coniston CofE Primary School | D− | 16% | 28% |
| Dean Barwick Primary School | D− | 10% | 15% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 202587 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Alston Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), January 2025.
Living near Alston Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CA9 3, the school’s postcode sector
Alston property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CA9 3 sell for well over Alston’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
1 state schoolLocation
Directions ↗Alston, CA9 3QU
Alston Primary School: common questions
Is Alston Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 4% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D−), with 36% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025.
How hard is it to get into Alston Primary School?
For September 2026, 10 families put Alston Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 10 places were offered in all.
What is Alston Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).
How much do houses cost near Alston Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, CA9 3, sold for a median £227,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (76 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Alston’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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