Report card · inspected Nov 2025
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
Safeguarding standards met
This schoolOther primary schools in Cheshire West and Chester
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Exceptional | Strong standard | Expected standard | Needs attention | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusion | Strong standard | ||||
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard | ||||
| Achievement | Expected standard | ||||
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard | ||||
| Personal development and wellbeing | Strong standard | ||||
| Early years | Strong standard | ||||
| Post-16 provision | Does not apply to this school | ||||
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard | ||||
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
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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 entry152 applications · 59 places offered · 59 named it first
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 2.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2025 2.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2
- 2024 2.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2023 2.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2022 2.7; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2021 3.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2020 3.0; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2019 3.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2018 3.1; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 2.6; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 2.2; Cheshire West and Chester median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 2.9; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2014 2.4; Cheshire West and Chester median median 2.0; as the previous school
- This school
- Cheshire West and Chester median
Dashed bars: as Meadow Community Primary School (URN 111235), 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 | 59 | 152 | 2.6 | 59 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 60 | 158 | 2.6 | 63 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2024 * | 60 | 162 | 2.7 | 59 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 * | 58 | 150 | 2.6 | 65 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2022 * | 59 | 159 | 2.7 | 69 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2021 * | 60 | 194 | 3.2 | 70 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2020 * | 60 | 177 | 3.0 | 77 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2019 * | 60 | 187 | 3.1 | 81 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 184 | 3.1 | 82 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 157 | 2.6 | 71 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 132 | 2.2 | 60 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 41 | 120 | 2.9 | 41 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 46 | 110 | 2.4 | 44 | 0.96 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Meadow Primary SchoolThis schoolThis school20252.6applications per place
- 0.6 km · Cheshire West and ChesterNot yet inspected
- 0.6 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20231.9applications per place 49%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20222.2applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20232.3applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Cheshire West and ChesterRemains Good20222.3applications per place 41%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · Cheshire West and ChesterStandards maintained20251.6applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · Cheshire West and ChesterGood20223.1applications per place
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 151417 · 896/2718
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 419 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2025
- Replaced
- Meadow Community Primary School (URN 111235)
- Address
- Dolphin Crescent, Great Sutton, Ellesmere Port, CH66 4SZ
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources