Overall Oxbridge
#1,135
1 ranked schools · -221 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
5
Offers
1
Offer rate20.0%
-2.4 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
A market town at the centre of the Solway Plain, Wigton sits in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, framed by the Caldbeck Fells to the south and the Solway coast to the north, just outside the Lake District. Around 6,000 people live here.
Wigton itself is the most school-competitive corner of this quiet stretch of Cumbria, drawing families from outlying settlements who look to its town-centre primary provision. The Cumbrian Coast Line connects Wigton station to Carlisle in around twenty minutes, placing the county town within easy reach. Bowness-on-Solway and Silloth are among the wider villages that feed the area's school rolls.
Area Performance
Across 20 primary and secondary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.17/10, -0.19 vs England.
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Distribution across all Wigton schools
Wigton vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Wigton schools
top 61% of 14,978
top 61% of 14,978
top 76% of 3,680
top 76% of 3,680
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · -221 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
5
Offers
1
Oxford
1 ranked schools · -34 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
3
Offers
0
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
2
Offers
1
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