Beechwood Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.197 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beechwood Primary School and Nursery is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 2–11 (community school). Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Beechwood Primary School and Nursery 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 | 1.197 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 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.197 miles away, the 38th shortest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance (middle 2.15 miles).
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Ranked 3rd lowest of 8 schools (this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East that have results) on 2024/25 reading, writing and maths.
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Meredith Street, Crewe, CW1 2PH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 474 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 27 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at Beechwood Primary School feel included, valued and listened to.”
- “Positive and respectful relationships between pupils and staff are evident each day.”
- “These relationships help pupils feel safe, secure and confident.”
To improve
- “However, a small number do not have the transcription skills they need, such as handwriting.”
- “This makes it harder for them to show what they know when they write.”
- “In 2025, national test results in reading dropped because the Year 6 pupils had many changes of teachers in key stage 2.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 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) | 44% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 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.
- Brierley Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Michael's Community Academy 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Underwood West Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hungerford Primary Academy 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Monks Coppenhall Academy 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published