Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School

Community school·Infant school Carlisle, Cumberland·CA3 0ES

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Kingmoor Nursery and 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

90%

98 first choices, 88 places

First choices per place

1.11

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

131

any preference, for 88 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9820221.0020231.0020241.0420251.112026

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 Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 293
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

8.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

4.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.0%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

7.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

9.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

28.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,845

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Kingmoor Junior School Carlisle · 0.0 mi 48.3 Stanwix School Carlisle · 1.1 mi 39.2 Houghton CofE School Carlisle · 1.2 mi 57.0 Caldew Lea School Carlisle · 1.7 mi 44.6 Newtown Primary School Carlisle · 1.7 mi 39.2 St Bede's Catholic Primary School Carlisle · 1.9 mi 48.7 Belle Vue Primary School Carlisle · 1.9 mi 47.2 Norman Street Primary School Carlisle · 2.2 mi 46.5

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

Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School at a glance

Located in Carlisle, Cumberland, Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 293 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Competition for places is real here - 90% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (98 first choices for 88 places). Overall pupil absence was 4.5%. There are about 28.7 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 9% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. Kingmoor Nursery and 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.