Overall Oxbridge
#1,442
1 ranked schools · -528 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
8
Offers
1
Offer rate12.5%
-9.9 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
Once a hamlet under the sway of Furness Abbey, Barrow-in-Furness was remade by Victorian iron investors and the Furness Railway into one of northern England's most distinctive planned industrial towns, occupying the tip of the Furness peninsula in Cumbria between Morecambe Bay and the Duddon Estuary.
Hindpool forms the historic core of the grid-planned borough and is among the most sought-after pockets for school catchments, while Barrow Island and Yarlside draw families competing for primary places in a catchment compressed by the peninsula's geography. Parkside and the surrounding estates extend the residential arc northward. Around 55,000 people lived in Barrow at the 2021 census; Northern Rail links the town to Lancaster in under an hour, with connections to the West Coast Main Line.
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Post-16
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Area Performance
Across 24 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.15/10, -0.20 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Barrow-in-Furness schools
Barrow-in-Furness vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Barrow-in-Furness schools
top 68% of 14,978
top 68% of 14,978
top 78% of 3,862
top 78% of 3,862
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · -528 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
8
Offers
1
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
3
Offers
0
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · -702 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
5
Offers
1
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