Cherry Tree School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Warrington
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.596 miles
Published by Warrington Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cherry Tree School is a primary school in Warrington for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 December 2023. Warrington has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Cherry Tree 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 | 0.596 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 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 0.596 miles away, the 15th shortest of 65 Warrington primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 last distance was further than in 2025 and nearer than in 2023; it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 29 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warrington schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hardy Road, Lymm, Warrington, WA13 0NX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Warrington
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 December 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are excited to come to school each day.”
- “Cherry Tree is a school where pupils model the school’s motto to ‘bring out the best in each other’.”
- “This means that pupils, including children in the early years, blossom and grow.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, assessment information is used less effectively.”
- “As a result, misconceptions in pupils’ vocabulary knowledge are not always identified or addressed quickly enough.”
- “However, the school has not decided on the vocabulary that children should learn in readiness for key stage 1.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 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) | 79% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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 Warrington.
- Statham Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ravenbank Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Oughtrington Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thelwall Community Junior School 1.6 mi Standards maintained
- Thelwall Infant School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Bradshaw Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grappenhall St Wilfrid's CofE Primary School 2.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 2.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published