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Sandgate School

Special schoolAges 3–19CommunitySixth form

Kendal, LA9 6JG · Westmorland and Furness local authority

Kendal’s School Grade B+ better than 71% of towns in England

How full
166 pupils
104% of its 160 places
Free school meals
34%
34 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Sandgate School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LA9 6) sold for a median £254,500; Kendal’s is £260,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 17 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Sandgate beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 0.4

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Westmorland and Furness avg 45.1

20304050607080England avg 47.3Sandgate 0.4

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Westmorland and Furness avg 41%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Sandgate 0%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Westmorland and Furness 62% · a standard pass

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.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

151 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.

SEN support
0.7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
99.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
34.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 36%Boys 64%
Its letter

No letter for Sandgate School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Sandgate School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in LA9 6, the school’s postcode sector

Kendal property prices →
£254,500
median sale, 354 sales in 36 months · Kendal £260,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025LA9 6Kendal
LA9 6Kendal

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£431K
Semi-detached
£258K
Terraced
£210K
Flat
£245K
LA9 6Kendal

Homes in LA9 6 sell for about the same as Kendal’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

9 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−C+BBA−B+C+A−Sandgate School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Kendal, LA9 6JG

Sandgate School: common questions

What is Sandgate School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Sandgate School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LA9 6, sold for a median £254,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (354 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; Kendal’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.