Dean Valley Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Macclesfield, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.685 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dean Valley Community Primary School is a primary school in Macclesfield, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 16 February 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Dean Valley 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 | 2.685 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 2026 Reception last distance offered was 2.685 miles, 53rd longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 2.15 miles.
- Reception last distances swung sharply, most from 2024 to 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 26 first-choice applications for 26 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 30 places are published for Reception 2027.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 17% 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
- Albert Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5HS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 199 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 16 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils welcome everyone to this school with a smile.”
- “They are polite and care for each other.”
- “Leaders and staff are determined for all pupils to succeed, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
To improve
- “However, there are areas where subject leaders have not finalised their curriculum thinking.”
- “The subject-specific content of some topics is less clear.”
- “This makes it harder for pupils to make connections between current and past learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 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) | 73% | 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, 26 offers in total, 26 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.
- Bollington Cross CofE Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Bollington St John's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Prestbury CofE Primary School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Pott Shrigley CofE Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Adlington Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hurdsfield Community Primary School and Nursery 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rainow Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published