St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.798 miles
Criterion 7 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 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 | 0.798 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 under one of its admission criteria lived 0.798 miles from the school.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance, further than in 2025 or 2024.
- For Reception 2026, there were 66 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 1% 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
- Dane Bank Avenue, Crewe, CW2 8AD
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 558 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to be members of this caring and nurturing school community.”
- “They get on well together and make lots of friends.”
- “Pupils benefit from the strong relationships that they have with staff.”
To improve
- “In 2022, the proportion of Year 6 and Year 2 pupils meeting the expected standard in reading was significantly lower than the national average.”
- “The proportion of Year 2 pupils meeting the expected standard in mathematics was also lower than the national average However, this data does not reflect the progress that many pupils, including those who speak English as an additional language and those who join the school later than other pupils, make.”
- “In a small number of subjects, however, these changes to the curriculum are not consistently implemented across the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 September 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) | 48% | 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: 66 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Vine Tree Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Berkeley Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Underwood West Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published