School profile
Branthwaite Academy
Branthwaite Road, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 4SS
Overview
Branthwaite Academy is a special / send school (free schools special) in Workington, North West, for pupils aged 4–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Free schools special
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 56
- Pupils on roll
- 74
- URN
- 143723
Admissions
- Local authority
- Cumberland
- Academy trust or group
- THE EDEN ACADEMY
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Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 4
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- Suppressed by DfE to protect individual pupils
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 4
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 15 October 2024 · Published 21 November 2024
Original education inspection framework (September 2024 to November 2025)
Ofsted did not give schools an overall effectiveness grade during this inspection period. The judgements Ofsted did publish are shown below.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Location
- Address
- Branthwaite Road, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 4SS
- Local authority
- Cumberland
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