Graded inspection · Nov 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Cheshire East
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Inspection history
- 5 November 2024Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 5 March 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry347 applications · 124 places offered · 159 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2025 2.4; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2024 2.4; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2023 2.4; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2022 2.2; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2021 2.1; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2020 2.5; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2019 2.3; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2018 2.3; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2017 1.6; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2016 1.9; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2015 2.0; Cheshire East median median 1.6
- 2014 1.8; Cheshire East median median 1.6
- This school
- Cheshire East median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 124 | 347 | 2.8 | 159 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2025 | 128 | 304 | 2.4 | 170 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2024 | 128 | 302 | 2.4 | 165 | 1.29 |
| Sep 2023 | 128 | 311 | 2.4 | 182 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2022 | 128 | 277 | 2.2 | 138 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 128 | 272 | 2.1 | 164 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2020 | 128 | 322 | 2.5 | 191 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2019 | 128 | 288 | 2.3 | 186 | 1.45 |
| Sep 2018 | 127 | 289 | 2.3 | 159 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2017 | 126 | 199 | 1.6 | 118 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2016 | 136 | 253 | 1.9 | 162 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2015 | 124 | 244 | 2.0 | 145 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2014 | 126 | 226 | 1.8 | 147 | 1.17 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 127 | 49.0 | 44% | 69% | – |
| 2024/25 | 127 | 47.7 | 46% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 138 | 47.9 | 42% | 66% | +0.26 |
| 2022/23 | 127 | 52.6 | 47% | 74% | +0.63 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.8applications per place 49.0Attainment 8
- 0.5 km · Cheshire EastGood20242.2applications per place 32.6Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good · concerns noted20242.4applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Cheshire EastGraded · no overall grade202431.6Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good202324.0Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20232.6applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Cheshire EastSerious weaknesses 20261.2applications per place 27.4Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · Cheshire East20262.3applications per place 50.2Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · Cheshire EastGood20222.1applications per place
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139764 · 895/4612
- Trust
- The South Cheshire Catholic Multi-Academy Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 640 pupils · 642 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 June 2013
- Replaced
- St Thomas More Catholic High School, A Specialist School for Maths & ICT (URN 111452)
- Address
- Dane Bank Avenue, Crewe, CW2 8AE
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources