Graded inspection · Dec 2022 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Inspection history
- 13 December 2022Graded inspection: Good
- 6 November 2019Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns) · as Middlewich High School, URN 111410
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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 entry254 applications · 126 places offered · 150 named it first
- 2026 2.0; Cheshire East median median 2.0
- 2025 1.7; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2024 1.8; Cheshire East median median 1.8
- 2023 1.8; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2022 1.7; Cheshire East median median 1.7
- 2021 1.7; Cheshire East median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2020 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 1.3; Cheshire East median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2016 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2014 1.4; Cheshire East median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire East median
Dashed bars: as Middlewich High School (URN 111410), the previous school.
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 | 126 | 254 | 2.0 | 150 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2025 | 123 | 210 | 1.7 | 114 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 123 | 217 | 1.8 | 111 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 | 140 | 258 | 1.8 | 148 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2022 | 132 | 226 | 1.7 | 141 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2021 * | 151 | 255 | 1.7 | 167 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2020 * | 134 | 189 | 1.4 | 122 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2019 * | 143 | 203 | 1.4 | 139 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 * | 130 | 186 | 1.4 | 115 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2017 * | 145 | 189 | 1.3 | 129 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2016 * | 136 | 184 | 1.4 | 124 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 * | 129 | 175 | 1.4 | 127 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2014 * | 123 | 175 | 1.4 | 111 | 0.90 |
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.) | 140 | 41.3 | 29% | 54% | – |
| 2024/25 | 134 | 41.2 | 34% | 55% | – |
| 2023/24 | 142 | 40.8 | 37% | 54% | −0.14 |
| 2022/23 | 137 | 38.5 | 33% | 54% | −0.54 |
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
- Middlewich High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20222.0applications per place 41.3Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · Cheshire EastStandards maintained20252.0applications per place 49.4Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Cheshire West and ChesterSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20251.1applications per place 32.0Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · Cheshire West and Chester20262.3applications per place 50.1Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · Cheshire EastGood20221.6applications per place 54.3Attainment 8
- 7.4 km · Cheshire EastGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 7.7 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20231.4applications per place 32.2Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20242.2applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 8.9 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20232.5applications per place 49.7Attainment 8
- 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
- 148693 · 895/4127
- Trust
- The Sir John Brunner Foundation
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 700 pupils · 665 on roll
- Free school meals
- 26.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 December 2021
- Replaced
- Middlewich High School (URN 111410)
- Address
- King Edward Street, Middlewich, CW10 9BU
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
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