Vine Tree Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.191 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Vine Tree Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 January 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Vine Tree 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 | 6.191 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 Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 6.191 miles away, 18th longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 distance was further than in 2025 and in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 40% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 40% was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East that have results.
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
- Dane Bank Avenue, Crewe, CW2 8AD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 200 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are encouraged by staff to ‘reach for the stars’ at Vine Tree Primary.”
- “They are excited about going to school and they enjoy learning, having fun and making friends.”
- “Staff have established warm and caring relationships with pupils.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, leaders are not as clear about the knowledge that they want pupils to know and remember.”
- “This hinders some teachers when designing learning for pupils and prevents some pupils from progressing well through the curriculum.”
- “However, some staff do not feel that their workload and well-being are prioritised by leaders and governors.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 March 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) | 40% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 15 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.
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Berkeley Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Beechwood Primary School and Nursery 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published