Chetwynde School
All-through · Barrow-in-Furness · LA13 0NY
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 7 November 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
508 pupils · 100% of 510 capacity
- School type
- Free schools
- Age range
- 3–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 17.3% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 3.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.5% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 8.2% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.chetwynde.co.uk
- URN
- 141106
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.07 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 32 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
2.13 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 64 first-choice applications · heavily oversubscribed
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)
30 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
56 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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
Teacher retention (2020/21)
89% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 4% left the state-funded sector
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, academy 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 7 November 2023: Good
- 30 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 5 November 2019: Requires improvement
- 3 May 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.