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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| 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 entry48 applications · 24 places offered · 23 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.0; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2025 1.7; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2024 1.6; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2023 1.7; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2022 2.0; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2021 1.9; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2020 1.7; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2019 1.6; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2018 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2017 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2016 1.5; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2015 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.5; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire East median
Dashed bars: as St Alban's Catholic Primary School (URN 111330), the previous school.
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 | 24 | 48 | 2.0 | 23 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2025 | 29 | 50 | 1.7 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2024 | 40 | 64 | 1.6 | 40 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 32 | 55 | 1.7 | 30 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2022 | 31 | 63 | 2.0 | 31 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 36 | 68 | 1.9 | 36 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 56 | 95 | 1.7 | 48 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2019 | 44 | 69 | 1.6 | 41 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2018 | 54 | 95 | 1.8 | 48 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2017 | 40 | 73 | 1.8 | 40 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 56 | 83 | 1.5 | 50 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2015 * | 48 | 68 | 1.4 | 45 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2014 * | 48 | 72 | 1.5 | 38 | 0.79 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 70% · Writing 63% · Maths 72% → all three 48% 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 | 48% | 0% | 107 | 104 |
| 2023/24 | 65% | 0% | 109 | 106 |
| 2022/23 | 59% | 5% | 108 | 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
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20241.8applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good · improving20243.1applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Cheshire East20262.7applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20232.2applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Cheshire EastGood20231.9applications per place 61%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · Cheshire East20261.9applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20232.5applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20241.8applications per place 73%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
- 141811 · 895/3525
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 268 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2015
- Replaced
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School (URN 111330)
- Address
- Priory Lane, Macclesfield, SK10 3HJ
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources