Middlewich Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Middlewich, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.645 miles
Distance · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Middlewich Primary School is a primary school in Middlewich, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2022. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Middlewich 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 | 2.645 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 2.645 miles, the 54th longest of 118 Cheshire East primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.15 miles).
- The Reception last distance moved sharply nearer between 2025 and 2026, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 58 first-choice applications for 59 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, 67% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 5% 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
- Park Road, Middlewich, CW10 9BS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 404 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, enjoy coming to this kind, friendly and supportive school.”
- “They arrive in the playground with a spring in their step, eager to start the day.”
- “Teachers create a stimulating learning environment, which encourages pupils to achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of subjects, teachers do not always choose the most suitable activities which help pupils to learn new ideas.”
- “Occasionally, this means that a few pupils struggle to recall all that they have learned.”
- “However, occasionally, some pupils have books with sounds that they do not know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2022 (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) | 67% | 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: 58 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 58 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. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cledford Primary & Nursery Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Warmingham CofE Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Holmes Chapel Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elworth CofE Primary School 3.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Elworth Hall Primary School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hermitage Primary School 4.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Offley Primary Academy 4.6 mi Not judged Last distance published