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Ashfield Infant & Nursery School

PrimaryAges 3–7Community

Workington, CA14 3JG · Cumberland local authority

Workington’s School Grade D− better than 4% of towns in England

Getting in
52/52
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
200 pupils
100% of its 201 places
Free school meals
11%
11 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Ashfield Infant & Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (52 of 52)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CA14 3) sold for a median £135,000; Workington’s is £132,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Ashfield Infant & Nursery School?

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

52
families put it first for September 2026
52
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (20), 2021 (10), 2022 (2). 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 in Workington, September 2026

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

1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Ashfield Infant & Nursery
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
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

205 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
9.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
1.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
13.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 54%Boys 46%
Its letter

No letter for Ashfield Infant & Nursery 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 June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionNeeds attention
Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns), June 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Ashfield Infant & Nursery School

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

Home prices in CA14 3, the school’s postcode sector

Workington property prices →
£135,000
median sale, 337 sales in 36 months · Workington £132,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K2010201520202025CA14 3Workington
CA14 3Workington

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£230K
Semi-detached
£152K
Terraced
£115K
Flat
£140K
CA14 3Workington

Homes in CA14 3 sell for about the same as Workington’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

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miND−C−C−B−B−C−D−DDAshfield Infant & Nursery S…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Workington, CA14 3JG

Ashfield Infant & Nursery School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Ashfield Infant & Nursery School?

For September 2026, 52 families put Ashfield Infant & Nursery School first and all of them were offered a place; 52 places were offered in all.

What is Ashfield Infant & Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near Ashfield Infant & Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CA14 3, sold for a median £135,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (337 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; Workington’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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