The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 2–7 (community school). Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
The Cobbs Infant and Nursery School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, which 1 of the 66 other Warrington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome also did.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in both earlier years with a published outcome, 2023 and 2025, and distances swung sharply between those years.
- For 2026 Reception entry, 42 first-choice applications for 60 offers was 0.7 first choices per offer, the 3rd lowest of 61 Warrington primary schools.
- At that entry every first-choice family was offered a place, and 18 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Wood Lane, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 3DB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 231 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 9 June 2026
Strengths
- “Leaders have established a school vision that helps every pupil to be the best that they can be.”
- “From the moment that children join the school in the Nursery Year, they thrive.”
- “They swiftly develop the skills and behaviours that they need for future success.”
To improve
- “While most pupils also achieve well in mathematics, some have gaps in their learning.”
- “Sometimes, staff do not address these gaps precisely enough.”
- “This limits pupils' achievement in mathematics.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 July 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 42 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 42 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Warrington.
- St Monica's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broomfields Junior School 0.2 mi Good
- St Thomas' CofE Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stockton Heath Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grappenhall Heys Community Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grappenhall St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Alderman Bolton Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published