Buglawton Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Congleton, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.789 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Buglawton Primary School is a primary school in Congleton, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 12 November 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Buglawton 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 | 0.789 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 0.789 miles away, the 25th shortest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 distance was sharply further from the school than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 26 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 25 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family (4%) was not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility is 31.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 19.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
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
- Buxton Old Road, Congleton, CW12 2EL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 202 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 12 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this nurturing and welcoming school.”
- “They form strong and positive relationships with the staff who care for them.”
- “Pupils feel listened to and valued for their individuality.”
To improve
- “However, a small number of subjects are at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these subjects, there are still gaps in pupils’ prior knowledge.”
- “Nonetheless, pupils find it difficult to recall their previous learning in these subjects, which makes it hard for them to build new knowledge on what they already know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 December 2024 (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) | 60% | 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: 26 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 25 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.
- Havannah Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Daven Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Marlfields Primary School 1.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Mossley CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Quinta Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Black Firs Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published