Chetwynde School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D54
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Location
- Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 0NY
- Distance
- 0.4km away
St Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow
Rating Lane, Barrow-in-Furness, LA13 9LE
Local ranking18th of 20 secondary schools in Westmorland and Furness
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
916
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 27 September 2022. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 38.5 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 32.8% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 54.3% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 116
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 91.0%
- Continued in education
- 67.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 19.0%
- Employment
- 5.0%
- Not sustained
- 7.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 674
- Boys
- 315 (50%)
- Girls
- 309 (50%)
- Capacity
- 916 (68% full)
- SEND
- 23.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 29.1%
- EAL
- 9.5%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 5.8%
- SEN Support
- 17.7%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 18.8:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,889/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 9.8% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 27.4% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 84.4%
- Asian Other: 3.4%
- Asian Indian: 3.0%
- Other: 2.5%
- White Other: 2.1%
- Mixed Other: 1.6%
- Black African: 1.5%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.3%
84.4%
White British
3.4%
Asian Other
3.0%
Asian Indian
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Rating Lane
Barrow-in-Furness, North West
Administrative
- URN
- 148702
- UKPRN
- 10088886
- Establishment No.
- 4634
- Trust
- MATER CHRISTI MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
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