Scotby CofE Primary School
Primary · Carlisle · CA4 8AT
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 22 March 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
215 pupils · 95% of 226 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 7.4% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 6.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.5% of pupils
- Website
- www.scotby.cumbria.sch.uk
- URN
- 112403
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.93 first-choice applications per place28 places offered · 26 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
41 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)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
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
- 22 March 2022: Good
- 20 November 2019: Section 8 inspections of good and non-exempt outstanding schools
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.