Wilmslow High School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–18 · Wilmslow, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.799 miles
In Area · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wilmslow High School is a secondary school in Wilmslow, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 January 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wilmslow High 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.799 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 371 first-choice applications for 352 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 7th highest of 20 Cheshire East secondary schools.
- 73 of the 539 applications (14%) for Year 7 in 2026 came from families living outside Cheshire East, and 1 offer went to them.
- In 2026, the last child offered a Year 7 place under one of its admission criteria lived 1.799 miles away; the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 51.4 (England 46).
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
- Holly Road, Wilmslow, SK9 1LZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 2,227 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 January 2025
Strengths
- “This is a school where pupils are inspired to be successful in all that they do.”
- “The school’s core value of ‘be more’ is evident in everything that happens.”
- “Pupils feel happy, safe and valued in this friendly school.”
To improve
- “However, this is not consistent across the school.”
- “This means that, in some subjects, teachers are not clear about the gaps that pupils have in their learning.”
- “Additionally, some teachers do not identify pupils’ misconceptions and misunderstandings effectively, particularly for those pupils with lower rates of attendance.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 53% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 51.4 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 371 first-preference applications, 352 offers in total, 331 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Cheshire East.
- The Fallibroome Academy 4.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Poynton High School 5.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tytherington School 5.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- All Hallows Catholic College 5.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Macclesfield Academy 6.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Knutsford Academy 6.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaton Bank Academy 10.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School 10.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published