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Dowdales School

Secondary school in Dalton-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness. Standards maintained (Feb 2025).

Latest inspection: ungraded

Inspected 5 February 2025, report published 12 March 2025.

Standards maintained

An ungraded inspection is a shorter visit to check that a school is still at the grade it was given at its last full inspection. It doesn’t award a new grade. The full inspection it refers to was before September 2019, so it isn’t in Ofsted’s current data. More about ungraded inspections.

Next inspection: around February 2029

The last inspection was in February 2025. Schools are usually inspected about every four years.

An estimate, not an Ofsted date. Ofsted doesn’t publish its schedule and gives schools about a day’s notice. The law says the next inspection must be by August 2030 at the latest, and Ofsted can visit sooner if it has concerns.

Nearby secondary schools

  1. 2.0 milesChetwynde School

    Secondary, Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness

    Good (Nov 2023)

  2. 2.1 milesSt Bernards Catholic High School, Barrow

    Secondary, Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness

    Good (Sep 2022)

  3. 3.1 milesFurness Academy

    Secondary, Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness

    Good (Mar 2023)

  4. 4.2 milesUlverston Victoria High School

    Secondary, Ulverston, Westmorland and Furness

    No overall grade. Quality of education good (Sep 2025)

  5. 4.8 milesWalney Academy

    Secondary, Barrow-in-Furness, Westmorland and Furness

    No overall grade. Quality of education requires improvement (May 2025)

Ofsted data as at 30 September 2026, school details from Get Information about Schools, 26 October 2026.