Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Cheshire West and Chester
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 | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry68 applications · 38 places offered · 38 named it first
- 2026 1.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2025 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2024 1.9; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2023 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2022 1.4; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2021 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2020 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2019 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 1.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 1.9; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 1.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2014 1.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire West and Chester median
Dashed bars: as Woodfall Primary School (URN 135019), 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 | 38 | 68 | 1.8 | 38 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 42 | 71 | 1.7 | 40 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 * | 53 | 102 | 1.9 | 47 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2023 * | 50 | 83 | 1.7 | 50 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 42 | 60 | 1.4 | 42 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 57 | 97 | 1.7 | 57 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 59 | 99 | 1.7 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 60 | 99 | 1.7 | 58 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 94 | 1.6 | 64 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 116 | 1.9 | 69 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2016 * | 56 | 101 | 1.8 | 54 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 57 | 102 | 1.8 | 57 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 57 | 99 | 1.7 | 54 | 0.95 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 84% · Writing 83% · Maths 89% → all three 79% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Cheshire West and Chester median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 79% | 16% | 108 | 108 |
| 2023/24 | 69% | 13% | 107 | 107 |
| 2022/23 | 65% | 11% | 107 | 106 |
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
- Woodfall Primary and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 79%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20242.0applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · Cheshire West and Chester20254.8applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 2.6 km · Cheshire West and ChesterOutstanding20242.3applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 2.8 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20242.1applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · Cheshire West and Chester20262.2applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 4.5 km · WirralOutstanding20242.9applications per place 100%met the SATs standard
- 5.1 km · Wirral20262.2applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 5.3 km · Wirral20263.2applications per place 82%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
- 150118 · 896/3807
- Trust
- Expedition Schools
- Capacity
- 466 pupils · 438 on roll
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 June 2024
- Replaced
- Woodfall Primary School (URN 135019)
- Address
- Woodfall Lane, Little Neston, Neston, CH64 4BT
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources