Furness Academy Overview

Furness Academy is a secondary school located in Barrow-in-Furness and reports to the local authority of Westmorland and Furness.

Furness Academy is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 16 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is oversubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1200 students but currently enrols 1209 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much weaker chance of being accepted due to already being over capacity.

Furness Academy students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 96.2% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.2% of students at the school.

30.4% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Furness Academy pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities