Black Combe Junior School
Primary · Millom · LA18 5DT
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 2 July 2024
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89 pupils · 65% of 136 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 7–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 34.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0% of pupils
- SEN support
- 15.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 7.1% of pupils
- URN
- 112160
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
18 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
85% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 15% moved to another state school
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 15 January 2019: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.