Secondary
The Lakes School
Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere, LA23 1HW
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 445 of 851 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
- Local authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 28.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 36.5
- Pupils per adult
- 12.3
- Pupils
- 450
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 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Sixth formGood
SafeguardingMet
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
42%
46.8
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 46.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.92 |
| Entered the EBacc | 5% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 60% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 42% |
| A level average points per entry | 34.94 |
| A level students | 19 |
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.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52% |
| 22/23 | 29% |
| 23/24 | 43% |
| 24/25 | 42% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 33.5 |
| 22/23 | 26.9 |
| 23/24 | 29.6 |
| 24/25 | 34.9 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 0.00 |
| 22/23 | -0.12 |
| 23/24 | -0.11 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 48.0 |
| 22/23 | 42.4 |
| 23/24 | 47.4 |
| 24/25 | 46.8 |
Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere, LA23 1HW
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 31 October, the year before starting.
Westmorland and Furness 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
- Sharon Rainey
- Address
- Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere, LA23 1HW
- Telephone
- 01539440810