Threlkeld CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Blease Road, Threlkeld, Keswick, CA12 4RX – View on map
- Phone: 01768779680
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Sally Jenkinson
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 4 families put it first for 4 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 4 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 4
- % eligible for free school meals: 10.5%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Westmorland and Furness average)
- English as an additional language: 0% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 32.4% a year (Westmorland and Furness 12.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 43% moved to another school, 57% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Westmorland and Furness: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 3 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Westmorland and Furness, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 7.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 17.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 33% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 25 percentage points below the Westmorland and Furness average (58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 32%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 83% · Maths 50% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 33%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 101
- Based on: 6 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: 86th of 98 junior and primary schools in the area
- #84Burlington CofE School36%
- #85Sedbergh Primary School35%
- #86Threlkeld CofE Primary School33%
- =87Long Marton School31%
- =87Newton Village Academy31%
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77th of 82 primary schools in Westmorland and Furness for Ofsted rating
- #75Tebay Primary SchoolGood
- #76Temple Sowerby CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #77Threlkeld CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #78Vicarage Park CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #79Warcop CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil, and how this school compares to others nearby, will appear here once we've linked in official DfE spending data.
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