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Millom Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Millom, LA18 4LP · Cumberland local authority

Millom’s School Grade D better than 14% of towns in England

Getting in
9/9
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
50 pupils
46% of its 108 places
Free school meals
24%
24 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Millom Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 50 pupils for 108 places
  • Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (9 of 9)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (LA18 4) sold for a median £110,000; Millom’s is £113,250
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Millom Infant School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

9
families put it first for September 2026
9
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered

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. Cumberland council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Cumberland council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Millom Infant
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

57 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
7%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
0%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
38.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 44%Boys 56%
Its letter

No letter for Millom Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

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.

Report card, inspection starting February 2026. Special measures

SafeguardingMet
AchievementUrgent improvement
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionNeeds attention
Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceUrgent improvement
Early yearsNeeds attention

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Inadequate, June 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), November 2021.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Millom Infant School

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

Home prices in LA18 4, the school’s postcode sector

Millom property prices →
£110,000
median sale, 208 sales in 36 months · Millom £113,250

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K2010201520202025LA18 4Millom
LA18 4Millom

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£260K
Semi-detached
£169K
Terraced
£92K
LA18 4Millom

Homes in LA18 4 sell for about the same as Millom’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

4 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−DBCMillom Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Millom, LA18 4LP

Millom Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Millom Infant School?

For September 2026, 9 families put Millom Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 9 places were offered in all.

What is Millom Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (February 2026) gave a report card: achievement urgent improvement, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Millom Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, LA18 4, sold for a median £110,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (208 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; Millom’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.