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Primary school in Workington, Cumberland

Ashfield Junior School

High Street, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 4ES

Ofsted Requires improvement · 2024
School website 01900604565
Ofsted Requires improvement July 2024
Met the expected standard 52% in the lower half nationally
Pupils 254 99% full
Local deprivation 2/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Requires improvementas at 2 July 2024

Graded Requires improvement at its last graded inspection, on 2 July 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

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Current published outcome
Requires improvement
Last overall grade in this dataset
Requires improvement
Days since inspection
822 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Key stage 2 results 2024/25

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths

52% England 60.7%

Reached the higher standard

3% England 8.1%

Average reading score

103 England 105.3

Average maths score

102 England 104.1

On the headline measure this school is in the lower half of state-funded primaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

There are no progress measures for primary schools any more. They were calculated from a key stage 1 baseline, and statutory key stage 1 tests ended in 2023, so nothing has been published since. That makes attainment the only official measure — and attainment tracks intake closely, which is why the comparison against similar schools above is the more useful of the two lines.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
254
Places
256
How full
Nearly full — 254 of 256 places taken
Girls / boys
132 / 122
Overall absence
4%

primary schools average 5.2%

Persistently absent
5%

primary schools average 12.8% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
23%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
2%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
5%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
0

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
10

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
1
Busiest road nearby
A596

17,005 vehicles a day (2025)

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
0

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Workington Rail Station

1.5 km away — railway station

Traffic volume is the context the collision count needs: a school beside a major road will record more collisions than one on a quiet street without being any less well run.

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

The area around the school

2/10 Deprivation decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England.

4/10 Child poverty decile

Among the more deprived half of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£227,976

postcode sector CA14 4 · 356 sales

Typical range
£171,237 to £319,950

middle half of sales

Detached
£312,500
Semi-detached
£209,975
Terraced
£107,500
Flat
£75,000

Homes around this school are close to the England average.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
25%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
9%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
19%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
46%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
56%

England 62.7%

Social housing
15%

England 17%

Privately rented
29%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
36%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
18%

England 22.5%

No car
33%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Allerdale 008A and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Primary
Ages
Ages 7–11
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Sue Frost
Register status
Open
Local authority
Cumberland
Ward
St John's and Great Clifton
Constituency
Whitehaven and Workington
URN
112147

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

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Nearest primary schools

SchoolOfstedExpected standardDistanceCompare
Ashfield Infant & Nursery SchoolCommunity school Outstanding 2024 — 0.1 mi
Victoria Infant and Nursery SchoolCommunity school No overall grade — 0.7 mi
Victoria Junior SchoolCommunity school No overall grade 20% 0.7 mi
St Patrick's Catholic Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2024 70% 0.7 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, WorkingtonAcademy converter No overall grade 45% 0.8 mi
St Michael's Nursery and Infant SchoolCommunity school No overall grade — 0.8 mi
Westfield Nursery and Primary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 55% 1 mi
Northside Primary SchoolAcademy sponsor led No overall grade — 1.1 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 52%
Median of its 11 closest peers 58%
Cumberland average 54.2%
England average 60.7%

Percentage meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedExpected standardCompare
St Edmund's and St Thomas' Catholic Primary SchoolAcademy converter Liverpool Good 2023 56%
St Augustine of Canterbury RC Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter Burnley Good 2024 53%
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolVoluntary aided school Liverpool Good 2023 48%
St Bede's Catholic Infant SchoolVoluntary aided school Widnes Outstanding 2023 —
Florendine Primary SchoolCommunity school Tamworth No overall grade 58%
Greatwood Community Primary SchoolAcademy converter Skipton Good 2023 69%
Evelyn Community Primary SchoolCommunity school Prescot Good 2022 63%
Carlton Primary AcademyAcademy converter Barnsley Good 2023 76%
The Vale Primary AcademyAcademy converter Knottingley No overall grade 77%
Swinton Fitzwilliam Primary SchoolAcademy converter Mexborough No overall grade 50%
Leas Park Junior SchoolCommunity school Mansfield Good 2023 47%
Redesdale Primary SchoolFoundation school Wallsend Good 2023 83%

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 112147; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 2 July 2024
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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