Ashdene Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Wilmslow, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.428 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ashdene Primary School is a primary school in Wilmslow, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 March 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ashdene 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 | 0.428 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
- Reception 2026 had 83 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 54 offers went to first-choice families, and 29 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.428 miles away, the 9th shortest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 89% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 38% 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
- Thoresway Road, Wilmslow, SK9 6LJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 422 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 1.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe in the school’s harmonious and calm environment.”
- “The school’s motto of ‘excellence: everyone, everywhere, every day’ is at the heart of Ashdene’s work.”
- “Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), rise to the very high expectations that the school sets for them.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 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) | 89% | 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: 83 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 54 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.
- St Anne's Fulshaw C of E Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Lindow Community Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gorsey Bank Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Alderley Edge Community Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lacey Green Primary Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Styal Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Wilmslow Academy 2.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Nether Alderley Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published