Lindow Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Wilmslow, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
159 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lindow Community Primary School is a primary school in Wilmslow, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 March 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Lindow Community Primary 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 | 159 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 159 miles away, the 5th longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The last distance swung sharply from 2025 to 2026, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 12 first-choice applications for 26 offers, 0.5 per offer, the 2nd lowest of 121 Cheshire East primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 88% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cheshire East schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Upcast Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 6EH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 152 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and proud to belong to this caring school community.”
- “They said that their teachers listen to their views.”
- “Pupils are confident that there is always someone they can talk to if they are worried or upset.”
To improve
- “In a small number of foundation subjects, leaders’ curriculum thinking is less well developed.”
- “They are still in the process of refining the important information that they want pupils to know and remember.”
- “This means that teachers are not clear about the essential knowledge that they want pupils to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 88% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 12 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 12 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 Cheshire East.
- Ashdene Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Anne's Fulshaw C of E Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Alderley Edge Community Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gorsey Bank Primary School 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Nether Alderley Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lacey Green Primary Academy 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Mobberley CofE Primary School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Styal Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published