Graded inspection · Jan 2024 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 30 January 2024Graded inspection: Outstanding
- 5 October 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
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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 entry94 applications · 44 places offered · 46 named it first
- 2026 2.1; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2025 2.2; 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 2.3; Cheshire East median median 2.2
- 2021 2.3; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2020 2.5; Cheshire East median median 2.1
- 2019 2.5; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 2.0; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 1.6; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 1.8; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2015 1.5; Cheshire East median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.4; Cheshire East median median 2.0; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire East median
Dashed bars: as Wilmslow Grange Community Primary and Nursery School (URN 111014), Brooke Dean Community School (URN 111012), 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 | 44 | 94 | 2.1 | 46 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2025 | 45 | 101 | 2.2 | 49 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2024 | 45 | 94 | 2.1 | 51 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2023 | 45 | 91 | 2.0 | 56 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2022 | 45 | 105 | 2.3 | 55 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2021 | 43 | 99 | 2.3 | 52 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2020 | 45 | 113 | 2.5 | 67 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2019 * | 45 | 111 | 2.5 | 55 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2018 * | 45 | 89 | 2.0 | 49 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2017 * | 45 | 72 | 1.6 | 43 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 * | 44 | 79 | 1.8 | 51 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 * | 43 | 63 | 1.5 | 33 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2014 * | 36 | 50 | 1.4 | 28 | 0.78 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 76% · Writing 85% · Maths 80% → all three 74% 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 | 74% | 15% | 106 | 106 |
| 2023/24 | 70% | 6% | 106 | 104 |
| 2022/23 | 73% | 7% | 108 | 105 |
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
- Handforth Grange Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20242.1applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20222.0applications per place
- 1.2 km · StockportRemains Good20233.3applications per place 66%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · StockportRemains Good20224.0applications per place
- 1.9 km · Cheshire EastGood20232.2applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · Cheshire EastRemains Good20232.9applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 2.0 km · Cheshire EastImproved significantly20241.6applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · Stockport20262.5applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 2.2 km · StockportRemains Good20242.8applications per place 79%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
- 146615 · 895/2138
- Trust
- Frank Field Education Trust
- Capacity
- 315 pupils · 340 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 February 2019
- Replaced
- Wilmslow Grange Community Primary and Nursery School (URN 111014); Brooke Dean Community School (URN 111012)
- Address
- Ullswater Road, Handforth, Wilmslow, SK9 3NG
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources