Graded inspection · Feb 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | 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 entry81 applications · 47 places offered · 38 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2025 1.9; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2024 2.1; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2023 2.0; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2022 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2021 1.9; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2020 1.9; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2019 1.9; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2018 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2017 1.7; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2016 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2015 1.6; Cheshire East median median 1.9
- 2014 1.6; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- This school
- Cheshire East median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 47 | 81 | 1.7 | 38 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2025 | 47 | 88 | 1.9 | 45 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2024 | 47 | 97 | 2.1 | 46 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 51 | 104 | 2.0 | 47 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 | 60 | 105 | 1.8 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2021 | 60 | 115 | 1.9 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2020 | 60 | 112 | 1.9 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 47 | 91 | 1.9 | 46 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2018 | 60 | 108 | 1.8 | 52 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2017 | 60 | 102 | 1.7 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2016 | 47 | 83 | 1.8 | 43 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 | 59 | 92 | 1.6 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 | 48 | 77 | 1.6 | 45 | 0.94 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 89% · Writing 78% · Maths 78% → all three 69% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Cheshire East median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 69% | 0% | 108 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 57% | 3% | 106 | 102 |
| 2022/23 | 55% | 2% | 106 | 104 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Holmes Chapel Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · Cheshire EastGood20232.4applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 3.3 km · Cheshire East20262.3applications per place 86%met the SATs standard
- 3.6 km · Cheshire East20261.9applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 4.0 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20233.9applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 5.8 km · Cheshire EastGraded · no overall grade20242.2applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 5.8 km · Cheshire EastNot yet inspected1.5applications per place
- 6.0 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20242.2applications per place
- 6.0 km · Cheshire EastGraded · no overall grade20243.6applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 140083 · 895/2165
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 401 on roll
- Free school meals
- 6.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2013
- Replaced
- Holmes Chapel Primary School (URN 111035)
- Address
- Middlewich Road, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, CW4 7EB
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources