Betley CofE VC Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 3–11 · Crewe, Staffordshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.301 miles
Furthest distance (miles): "4.301" · Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Betley CofE VC Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Staffordshire for ages 3–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Betley CofE VC 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 | 4.301 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
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 4.301 miles, 6th longest of 58 Staffordshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 1.27 miles.
- The Reception last distance offered in 2026 was further out than in 2025 and about the same as in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026, 13 of the 35 applications (37%) came from families living outside Staffordshire, and 4 offers went to them; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 32.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Staffordshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Church Lane, Betley, Crewe, CW3 9AX
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Staffordshire
- Pupils on roll
- 100 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this welcoming and happy school.”
- “The school wants the very best for everyone and pupils are at the heart of all it does.”
- “Staff have high expectations of all pupils, and pupils respond well to these.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not yet have sufficient opportunities to develop, practise and apply their grammar, punctuation and spelling skills in a range of subjects.”
- “As a result, pupils do not develop the knowledge, determination and fluency they need to become more confident and skilled readers and writers by the end of Year 6.”
- “However, expectations for the teaching of handwriting and the presentation of work are not high enough, and inconsistencies in teaching mean that the quality of work is often variable.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 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) | 62% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 14 offers in total, 14 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 Staffordshire.
- The Meadows Primary School 2.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Sir John Offley CofE (VC) Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Alsagers Bank Primary Academy 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ravensmead Primary School 3.4 mi Good
- Wood Lane Primary School 3.6 mi Not judged
- St Luke's CofE (C) Primary School 3.7 mi Not judged
- St John's CofE Primary Academy 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Silverdale Primary Academy 4.5 mi Good
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