Ashfield Infant & Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Mixed · Cumberland
Newlands Lane, Workington, CA14 3JG
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headline score
Ranking (England)
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No ranked results
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
No graded inspection
Application demand
100%
1st preference success · Not oversubscribed
Attendance
95.3%
9.1% persistently absent
At a glance
Pupils on roll
200
Capacity used
Over capacity100%
201 places
GCSE rank (England)
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KS2 rank (England)
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Application demand
Primary entry · official council applications and offers
100%
1st preference success rate
49 of 49 families who put it first got an offer
51
Places offered
110
Total applications
2.2
Applications per place
| Preference (Sept 2025 entry) | Applications | Offers | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st preference | 49 | 49 | ● 100% |
| 2nd preference | 44 | 2 | ● 5% |
| 3rd preference | 17 | 0 | ● 0% |
| Total | 110 | 51 | 46% |
1st preference success by year
Cumberland lets families list 3 preferences. Source: Department for Education, school-level applications and offers. Offers are made on each school's admissions criteria (e.g. siblings, distance, faith), so check the school's policy.
Details
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Headteacher
- Amy Barclay
- Address
- Newlands Lane, Workington, CA14 3JG
- Phone
- 01900606301
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Ward / constituency
- St John's and Great Clifton · Whitehaven and Workington
- Area
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- URN
- 112146
Pupils
| Measure | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free school meals | 11% | — | — |
| English as additional language | 1% | — | — |
| SEN support | 6% | — | — |
Local deprivation (IDACI quintile 3 of 5)
1 = least deprived area, 5 = most deprived. Context only.
200 pupils · 201 places. Intake figures describe the school's community — they aren't good or bad.
Ofsted inspections
- 24
13 June 2024
Ungraded inspection
School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next
Attendance
2024/2025 school year · 121 pupils
Attendance
95.3%
Share of sessions attended · England 94.5%
Overall absence
4.7%
Sessions missed, any reason · England 5.5%
Persistent absence
9.1%
Pupils missing 10%+ of school · England 14.6%
Severe absence
0.0%
Pupils missing 50%+ of school · England 2.3%
Unauthorised absence
1.2%
Absences the school didn't approve
Persistent absence by year
Source: Department for Education, pupil absence by school (pupils aged 5–15). Lower absence is better. England figures are approximate 2023/24 averages.
House prices near the school
Typical sold prices (Land Registry) within 1 km, last 12 months.
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Source: Get Information About Schools and the DfE school and college performance tables (2023-2024); Oxbridge figures from the University of Cambridge's admissions by UCAS apply centre (Oxford doesn't publish per-school figures). Read the method.