Greystoke Primary School, Penrith
Data last updated 12 Sept 2026
Location
Estimated admission likelihood based on school density and oversubscription data
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 5 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Greystoke Primary School creates a warm, family-like environment where your child will feel known and safe. Staff have strong subject knowledge and use good teaching strategies to help pupils make progress, with particular strength in early reading. The school provides a range of enriching activities and takes pupil wellbeing seriously, helping children develop confidence and understand the wider world.
Key Strengths
- Strong attendance and positive behaviour across the school with clear routines and warm relationships between staff and pupils
- Well-established early reading and phonics programme that helps pupils build secure knowledge
- Engaging curriculum with clear end points and good use of creative opportunities to help pupils apply their learning across subjects
- Caring and inclusive environment where leaders know pupils and families well and provide high-quality teaching as the main way to reduce barriers
Areas for Improvement
- Some pupils with barriers to learning progress to new topics before gaps in knowledge are fully addressed, leading to continued errors in punctuation and spelling
- Gaps in reading and writing skills for some pupils go unchecked by staff
- In early years, some planned questions and activities are not matched to individual children's needs closely enough
- Plans to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities require greater precision
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified and managed, so pupils feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Art workshops, dance events, Lego engineering projects, sporting competitions, trips and residentials, connections with local artists and faith groups
Greystoke Primary School is a welcoming school where pupils enjoy learning and behave positively. Most pupils achieve well with attainment above national averages, though some pupils with barriers to learning need more targeted support to close knowledge gaps.
At a Glance
2.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
18.7
Avg class size
3
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
81%
Available places
51 pupils
63 capacity
12 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Penrith
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Penrith
Admissions Demand - Westmorland and Furness
Places available
2,627
Applications
1,698
Got 1st preference
97.9%
Got preferred school
99.4%
Primary admissions across Westmorland and Furness (2025/26)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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School Funding
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Pupil Absence2024/25
2.69049%
Overall absence
2.63158%
Persistent absence
38
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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