Chelford CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Macclesfield, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.124 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chelford CofE Primary School is a primary school in Macclesfield, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 18 October 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Chelford CofE 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 | 3.124 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 distance offered was 3.124 miles, the 46th longest of the 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further than in 2025 but nearer than in 2024, the sharpest swing being from 2025 to 2026.
- Reception 2026 had 9 first-choice applications for 10 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 83% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 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
- Oak Road, Chelford, Macclesfield, SK11 9AY
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 81 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 18 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils embody the school’s belief that ‘happy children learn best’.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and appreciate how staff care for them.”
- “Pupils like to learn and play with their friends.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the school’s curriculum thinking is less welldeveloped.”
- “Some teachers are not as clear about some of the key knowledge that they should teach.”
- “This means that pupils’ knowledge is not as deep as it is in the rest of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 December 2023 (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) | 83% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 10 offers in total, 9 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.
- Peover Superior Endowed Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Nether Alderley Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alderley Edge Community Primary School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lindow Community Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mobberley CofE Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashdene Primary School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anne's Fulshaw C of E Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published