High Legh Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Knutsford, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.728 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
High Legh Primary School is a primary school in Knutsford, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 July 2022. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
High Legh 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 | 4.728 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 4.728 miles away, the 32nd longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Reception 2026 had 13 first-choice applications for 16 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In Reception 2026, 6 of the 24 applications (25%) came from families living outside Cheshire East, and 3 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 58% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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
- Wrenshot Lane, High Legh, Knutsford, WA16 6NW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 162 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and feel safe at this nurturing community school.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, are supported effectively by caring staff who know them well.”
- “This helps them to achieve well academically, socially and personally.”
To improve
- “More recently, pupils have achieved less well in the Year 4 multiplication check.”
- “However, in a few subjects, pupils sometimes do not have enough opportunities to deepen their knowledge.”
- “This limits their ability to apply their learning to new contexts.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 September 2026 (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) | 58% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 16 offers in total, 13 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.
- Little Bollington CofE Primary School 2.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Egerton Primary School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Manor Park Primary School and Nursery 5.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School 5.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bexton Primary School 5.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mobberley CofE Primary School 6.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Styal Primary School 8.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lindow Community Primary School 8.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published