Dallam School, Milnthorpe | The Good Schools Guide

Dallam School
Milnthorpe
Cumbria
LA7 7DD
Head: Ms Julie O’Connor
T 015395 65165
F 01539 563913
E [email protected]
W www.dallam.eu
A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
Boarding: Yes
Local authority: Cumbria
Pupils: 1065; sixth formers: 170
Religion: None
Fees: Day free; Boarding £11,806 - £13,155 pa
Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good ¹
- ¹ Short inspection 13th December 2017
- ² Full inspection 1st May 2013
Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.
Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 28th January 2010
Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What The Good Schools Guide says..

'Five years ago Dallam was a good school which since then has just got better and better...' so says a parent with three happy and successful children at the school. The school’s status as an IB World School, alongside the opportunity for boarding, means that students within this rural Cumbrian community meet other young people from all around the world. With the Lake District on their doorstep you can get all three seasons in one day here, which is a bit of a shock for…

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What the school says...

Converted to an academy 2011.

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Curricula

International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.

School associations

State boarding school

What The Good Schools Guide says

Executive headteacher

Since January 2020, Ms Julie O’Connor who will lead the school until a new head takes up the post in September 2020. Ms O’Connor was previously head of school at Dallam until 2010 when she left to take up a headship at Dowdales in Dalton in Furness.

Academic matters

‘Learning for All, Learning for Life’ is both the school’s motto and its mantra. Excellent track record of outstanding achievement in exams with the full range of GCSEs, BTecs, A levels and IB on offer. Despite the broad intake, it sits very comfortably alongside selective schools in the area, beating national averages: 72 per cent achieved 4-9 in maths and English (seven per cent 9-7) at GCSE in 2019 and 21 per cent A*/A, 43 per cent A*-B at A level. All creditable, alongside an IB...

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