South Walney Infant and Nursery School

Community school·Infant school Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness·LA14 3BZ

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

South Walney Infant and Nursery 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

100%

32 first choices, 32 places

First choices per place

1.00

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 32 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0020221.0020230.9720241.0020251.002026

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

Every child who put South Walney Infant and Nursery School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 165
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

15.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

10.9%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

10.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,171

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

South Walney Junior School Barrow-in-Furness · 0.1 mi 42.9 St Columba's School Barrow-in-Furness · 0.2 mi 19.5 Vickerstown School Barrow-in-Furness · 0.7 mi 9.8 Barrow Island Community Primary School Barrow-in-Furness · 0.8 mi 35.1 St James' CofE Junior School Barrow-in-Furness · 1.2 mi 20.2 St George's CofE School Barrow-in-Furness · 1.3 mi 32.5 Greengate Junior School Barrow-in-Furness · 1.4 mi 39.0 Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Barrow Barrow-in-Furness · 1.5 mi 28.0

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

South Walney Infant and Nursery School at a glance

Located in Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness, South Walney Infant and Nursery School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 165 pupils aged 3 to 7.

South Walney Infant and Nursery School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 32 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 19.7 pupils per teacher. South Walney Infant and Nursery 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.