Sound and District Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Nantwich, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
12.985 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sound and District Primary School is a primary school in Nantwich, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 February 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Sound and District 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 | 12.985 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
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 12.985 miles from the school, the 8th longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.15 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years, after swinging sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 12 first-choice applications for 17 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Whitchurch Road, Sound, Nantwich, CW5 8AE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 138 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, are happy and enjoy attending this school.”
- “They feel well cared for because staff know them well.”
- “Pupils referred to the school as being like one big family.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the curriculum is not as carefully organised.”
- “There is not enough information for teachers to know what they should teach and when they should teach it.”
- “In addition, the school has not considered the most effective activities to help pupils to learn well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 April 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) | 74% | 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, 17 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.
- Wrenbury Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Weaver Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 2.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Millfields Primary Academy 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pear Tree Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Nantwich Primary Academy 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Acton Church of England Primary Academy 3.1 mi Good Last distance published