Stramongate Primary School

Stramongate Primary School is a good school across all inspected areas: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils are happy, feel safe and typically behave well, and staff build nurturing relationships that reflect the school’s values of respect, responsibility and resilience. The school has high expectations and pupils achieve well, leaving Year 6 very well prepared for the next stage of their education. The curriculum is broad, ambitious and enriched with visits, residential trips and outdoor learning, and pupils benefit from strong early reading provision, effective attendance work and good support for pupils with SEND.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, feel safe and typically behave well.
• Staff build nurturing relationships and promote respect, responsibility and resilience.
• The curriculum is broad, ambitious and informed by the local context.
• Pupils achieve well and are very well prepared for secondary education.
• Early reading is strong, with well-matched books and effective phonics support.
• Attendance work has been highly effective in reducing persistent absence.
• Pupils with SEND are identified quickly and supported effectively.
• Pupils benefit from enrichment such as residential trips, outdoor learning and clubs.
• Pupils take on leadership roles and contribute to the local community.
• Trustees provide effective support and challenge, with a shared vision for pupils.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, activities and work do not focus sharply enough on the key knowledge intended, so some pupils do not deepen their understanding securely over time.
• In a small number of subjects, checks on learning are still being refined and do not clearly identify gaps in pupils’ knowledge.
• Where assessment processes are less developed, some pupils’ gaps in understanding are not addressed swiftly enough.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Stramongate Primary School attended 95.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Stramongate Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Stramongate Primary School had 18.5 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.0% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 11.0% of pupils at Stramongate Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2023–24 Stramongate Primary School received £6,543 and spent £6,241 for each of its 278 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £168,000 (£604 per pupil).

Across all 17 schools of Cumbria Education Trust, income was £7,378 and spending £7,518 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Kendal · Westmorland and Furness local authority: places and applications

Stramongate Primary School is part of Cumbria Education Trust, which runs 17 schools. The nearest others:

• The Queen Katherine School Kendal
• Castle Park School Kendal
• Tebay Primary School Penrith
• Kirkby Stephen Grammar School Kirkby Stephen
• Yanwath Primary School Penrith
• The Whitehaven Academy Whitehaven
• Hensingham Primary School Whitehaven
• Petteril Bank School Carlisle
• Workington Academy Workington
• Castle Carrock School Brampton

What is Stramongate Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Stramongate Primary School is Good, from an inspection in June 2025.

When was Stramongate Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Stramongate Primary School was last inspected in June 2025.

How many pupils does Stramongate Primary School have?

Stramongate Primary School has 237 pupils on roll.

What age range does Stramongate Primary School cover?

Stramongate Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Stramongate Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Stramongate Primary School?

Stramongate Primary School is at Blackhall Road, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 4BT.