Kells Infant School

Community school·Infant school Whitehaven, Cumberland·CA28 9PQ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Kells Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

86%

35 first choices, 30 places

First choices per place

1.17

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 30 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.17

00.511.5

1 per place

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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Cumberland does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Kells Infant School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 116
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

7.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

20.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

5.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.4%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

11.5%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

16.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,800

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

St Mary's Catholic Primary School Whitehaven · 0.1 mi 63.4 Monkwray Junior School Whitehaven · 0.3 mi 34.8 St Begh's Catholic Junior School Whitehaven · 0.8 mi 32.9 Valley Primary School and Nursery Whitehaven · 1.1 mi 23.4 Jericho Primary School Whitehaven · 1.2 mi 60.2 St James' CofE Junior School Whitehaven · 1.2 mi 63.3 Hensingham Primary School Whitehaven · 1.3 mi 32.5 Bransty Primary School Whitehaven · 1.8 mi 28.6

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About Kells Infant School

Kells Infant School is a primary school in Whitehaven, Cumberland, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 116 pupils aged 3 to 7 attend the school.

Kells Infant School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 35 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 16.5 pupils per teacher. Kells Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.