Primary
Great Orton Primary School
Great Orton, Carlisle, CA5 6NA
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 35 of 70 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.6
- Local authority
- Cumberland
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 3.0
- All staff (FTE)
- 5.8
- Pupils per adult
- 7.1
- Pupils
- 41
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected January 2023
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
June 2019
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
SATs results
40%
15 points below the Carlisle average (55% across 39 schools)
101.0
3.2 below the Carlisle average (104.2 across 39 schools)
33rd of 41 by our score, among the primary schools in Carlisle we can score - 45 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2023/2024
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 104 |
| Average reading score | 101 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 40% |
| Working at a higher standard | 0% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Great Orton, Carlisle, CA5 6NA
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Cumberland admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Matthew Walker
- Address
- Great Orton, Carlisle, CA5 6NA
- Telephone
- 01228711602