Kingsmead Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.354 miles
Published by Cheshire West and Chester Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2016–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kingsmead Primary School is a primary school in Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Cheshire West and Chester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2016 to 2026 entry.
Kingsmead 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 | 1.354 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Reception 2026's last place went to a child living 1.354 miles away, 18th longest of the 42 Cheshire West and Chester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception distance has swung sharply, most of all from 2020 to 2021, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 7 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 53 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 45 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cheshire West and Chester schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Dukes Way, Kingsmead, Northwich, CW9 8WA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Pupils on roll
- 308 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Kingsmead pupils are proud citizens of their school and its local community.”
- “They have a well-informed view of national and global issues.”
- “Pupils learn that they can enact change and they are proud to do so.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the curriculum design does not help pupils to learn as well as they do in other subjects.”
- “This is because the school has not thought carefully enough about how key knowledge builds on previous learning and concepts.”
- “In these subjects, some pupils do not remember their learning as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 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) | 66% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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 West and Chester.
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hartford Manor Primary School & Nursery 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Charles Darwin Community Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Leftwich Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Winnington Park Community Primary and Nursery School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Davenham CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hartford Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Witton Church Walk CofE Aided Nursery and Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published