Castle View Primary Academy
Keswick Road, Lancaster, LA1 3LE
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- CIDARI EDUCATION LIMITED
- Headteacher
- Mr Huw Rose
- Sponsor
- Cidari Trust
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Setting
- Urban: Further from a major town or city
- Capacity
- 210
- Pupils on roll
- 100
- URN
- 148231
- Local authority
- Lancashire
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 0152467880
About this school
Castle View Primary Academy is a primary academy in Lancaster. It teaches children aged 4 to 11 and has 100 pupils on roll.
You can read Ofsted's latest judgement for the school below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Early years
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Ofsted placed the school in a category of concern: serious weaknesses.
Exam results
Key stage 2 (end of primary school)
| Measure | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils at the end of key stage 2 | 19 | 25 | 13 |
| Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths | 63% | 28% | 31% |
| Reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Expected standard in reading | 79% | 52% | 62% |
| Expected standard in maths | 79% | 48% | 38% |
| Expected standard in grammar, punctuation and spelling | 74% | 56% | 54% |
| Average scaled score in reading | 104.0 | 99.0 | 105.0 |
| Average scaled score in maths | 103.0 | 98.0 | 100.0 |
| Reading progress | +0.90 | - | - |
| Writing progress | -0.70 | - | - |
| Maths progress | -1.20 | - | - |
Progress measures ended nationally after the 2022/23 school year, when the key stage 1 assessments they were based on were stopped. Blank progress figures in later years are not missing school data.
Trends over time
How Castle View Primary Academy has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | Lancashire average | England average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 63% | 58.3% | 57.9% |
| 2023/24 | 28% | 58.3% | 58.8% |
| 2024/25 | 31% | 58.8% | 60.3% |
Department for Education KS2 performance data, published school results.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.6% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 8.9% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 7.1% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 123 |
| 2023/24 | 132 |
| 2024/25 | 101 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Castle View Primary Academy compares
Castle View Primary Academy ranked 418th of 445 primary schools in Lancashire for KS2 results in 2024/25. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 24% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 31% | 7.1% | 52.5% | 100 | — |
| Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary School | 64% | 4.3% | 16.6% | 201 | 0.3 miles |
| The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster | 80% | 5.6% | 28.7% | 195 | 0.5 miles |
| St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Lancaster | 33% | 8.6% | 51.3% | 144 | 0.7 miles |
| Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School | 65% | 5.9% | 16.8% | 372 | 0.8 miles |
| Bowerham Primary & Nursery School | 60% | 3.6% | 17.9% | 498 | 0.9 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 52.48%
- English as an additional language
- 24.8%
- Overall absence
- 7.1%
- Persistent absence
- 21.3%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary School0.3 miles
Primary · Lancaster
-
The Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster0.5 miles
Primary · Lancaster
-
St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Lancaster0.7 miles
Primary · Lancaster
-
Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School0.8 miles
Primary · Lancaster
-
Bowerham Primary & Nursery School0.9 miles
Primary · Lancaster
Other schools in Lancaster
Castle View Primary Academy ranks 24th of the 24 ranked primary schools in Lancaster.
- Austwick Church of England VA Primary School Primary
- Bentham Community Primary School Primary
- Bowerham Primary & Nursery School Primary
- Caton Primary School Primary
- Caton St Paul's Church of England Primary School Primary
- Cawthorne's Endowed School Primary
- Dolphinholme Church of England Primary School Primary
- Ellel St John the Evangelist Church of England Primary School Primary
- Hornby St Margaret's Church of England Primary School Primary
- Lancaster Christ Church Church of England Primary School Primary
- Lancaster Dallas Road Community Primary School Primary
- Lancaster Ryelands Primary School Primary
Common questions
- What year groups does Castle View Primary Academy teach?
- Castle View Primary Academy teaches children aged 4 to 11. It is a primary school in Lancaster.
- Who is the headteacher of Castle View Primary Academy?
- The headteacher of Castle View Primary Academy is Mr Huw Rose, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- When was Castle View Primary Academy last inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Castle View Primary Academy, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How big is Castle View Primary Academy?
- Castle View Primary Academy has 100 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 4 to 11.
- Is Castle View Primary Academy full?
- Castle View Primary Academy has capacity for 210 pupils and 100 on roll (48%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Castle View Primary Academy a faith school?
- No. Castle View Primary Academy has no designated religious character.
- Does Castle View Primary Academy have a nursery?
- No. The schools register records Castle View Primary Academy as having no nursery classes.
- Who runs Castle View Primary Academy?
- Castle View Primary Academy is part of CIDARI EDUCATION LIMITED. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- How have Castle View Primary Academy's results changed over recent years?
- Its share of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths was 63% in 2022/23 and 31% in 2024/25. The year-by-year figures, alongside local and national averages, are charted in the trends section on this page.
- How does Castle View Primary Academy rank locally?
- Castle View Primary Academy ranked 418th of 445 primary schools in Lancashire for key stage 2 results. Its KS2 result was higher than 7% of England primary schools that published results in 2024/25. Its absence rate was lower than 24% of England schools in 2024/25. Results reflect each cohort as well as the school, so treat rankings as a starting point.
- What is Castle View Primary Academy's absence rate?
- Castle View Primary Academy's overall absence rate is 7.1% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- What are Castle View Primary Academy's exam results?
- Where the Department for Education has published them, Castle View Primary Academy's key stage results are shown in the results section on this page, with the last three years so you can see the trend rather than a single year.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 10 July 2026.