Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Sandbach, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
6.37 miles
7 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College is a secondary school in Sandbach, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2022. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College 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 | 6.37 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 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 6.37 miles away.
- The Year 7 last distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 or 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 250 first-choice applications for 249 offers; 241 offers went to first-choice families and 9 first-choice families (4%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 59% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%).
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
- Middlewich Road, Sandbach, CW11 3NT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 1,340 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils and students in the sixth form are proud of their school.”
- “They told inspectors that they are happy and that they can be themselves.”
- “They said that everyone is accepted and welcomed.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders do not use assessment strategies well enough to track pupils’”
- “knowledge and understanding over time.”
- “This means that in some cases, pupils do not build upon what they already know as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 2022 (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) | 59% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 55.6 | 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: 250 first-preference applications, 249 offers in total, 241 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.
- Sandbach School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sir William Stanier School 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alsager School 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Cheshire Studio School 4.2 mi School remains Good
- Crewe Engineering and Design UTC 4.2 mi Not judged
- Middlewich High School 4.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Ruskin Community High School 4.9 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published