Graded inspection · May 2024 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| 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 entry29 applications · 18 places offered · 15 named it first
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 1.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2025 1.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2024 1.3; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2023 1.3; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2022 1.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2021 1.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2020 0.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2019 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 0.8; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 1.5; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2014 1.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire West and Chester median
Dashed bars: as Lache Primary School (URN 131350), 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 | 18 | 29 | 1.6 | 15 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2025 | 26 | 31 | 1.2 | 15 | 0.58 |
| Sep 2024 * | 20 | 25 | 1.3 | 16 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2023 * | 21 | 28 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 * | 17 | 21 | 1.2 | 17 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 22 | 24 | 1.1 | 19 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2020 * | 23 | 18 | 0.8 | 14 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2019 * | 21 | 20 | 1.0 | 15 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2018 * | 28 | 22 | 0.8 | 17 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2017 * | 25 | 37 | 1.5 | 24 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 * | 41 | 42 | 1.0 | 37 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2015 * | 24 | 27 | 1.1 | 19 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2014 * | 33 | 34 | 1.0 | 25 | 0.76 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Lache Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place
- 0.1 km · Cheshire West and ChesterStandards maintained20241.3applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20233.3applications per place 87%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Cheshire West and ChesterNot yet inspected
- 1.6 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGraded · no overall grade20242.2applications per place
- 2.7 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRequires significant improvement 20263.5applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 2.8 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20232.1applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 2.9 km · Cheshire West and Chester20261.7applications per place 40%met the SATs standard
- 3.0 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20231.5applications per place 61%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
- 150470 · 896/2729
- Capacity
- 258 pupils · 169 on roll
- Free school meals
- 51.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2025
- Replaced
- Lache Primary School (URN 131350)
- Address
- Hawthorn Road, Lache, Chester, CH4 8HX
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources