Mablins Lane Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.825 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Mablins Lane Community Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Mablins Lane 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 | 1.825 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 1.825 miles away, the 51st shortest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance.
- This distance has swung sharply between some years; the 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 had 62 first-choice applications for 64 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 54% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
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
- Mablins Lane, Crewe, CW1 3YR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 611 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Mablins Lane Community Primary is a happy school where pupils feel safe and are nurtured.”
- “Pupils value the warm and positive relationships with staff and each other.”
- “There is a strong sense of community and belonging at the school.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, curriculum organisation is less developed.”
- “The sequence of learning is not always clear and pupils have some gaps in their knowledge which hinder future learning.”
- “However, in a few subjects, this is less effective.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 December 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) | 54% | 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: 62 first-preference applications, 64 offers in total, 62 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.
- Leighton Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Michael's Community Academy 0.6 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Underwood West Academy 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Monks Coppenhall Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Beechwood Primary School and Nursery 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brierley Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hungerford Primary Academy 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published