Edleston Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.98 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Edleston Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 July 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Edleston 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 | 0.98 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.98 miles away, the 34th shortest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2024, and was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- Denver Avenue, Crewe, CW2 7PX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at Edleston Primary School are happy and excited to learn.”
- “The school is a friendly and welcoming place, where pupils celebrate the diverse cultures that co-exist in their community.”
- “Pupils are proud to be anti-bullying ambassadors, school councillors and sports leaders.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, some pupils do not learn as well as they could.”
- “This is because some historical gaps in their knowledge and understanding of some curriculum subjects have not been addressed well enough.”
- “In 2024, Year 6 pupils’ attainment in reading was below average.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2025 (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) | 62% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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.
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Vine Tree Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Beechwood Primary School and Nursery 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brierley Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Underwood West Academy 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published