Congleton High School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Congleton, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
22.059 miles
6 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Congleton High School is a secondary school in Congleton, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 3 February 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Congleton 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 | 22.059 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, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 22.059 miles away, further than in 2025 and in 2024.
- That 2026 Year 7 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance, and it swung sharply between some years.
- In 2026 Year 7 entry, there were 147 first-choice applications for 149 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 9th lowest of 20 Cheshire East secondary schools.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths: 41% of pupils got grade 5 or above (England 45%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Cheshire East.
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
- Box Lane, Congleton, CW12 4NS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 1,174 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 February 2023
Strengths
- “Congleton High School is a warm, welcoming place to learn and work.”
- “Leaders are ambitious for all pupils.”
- “Pupils, staff and leaders embrace the vision for the school community.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects in key stage 3 and 4, teachers sometimes do not design activities that help pupils to remember their learning.”
- “This means that pupils’ learning is less secure, and pupils cannot explain what they have learned.”
- “However, leaders’ plans to improve pupils’ love of reading and to extend pupils’ vocabulary are not fully implemented across the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2023 (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) | 41% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 44.8 | 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: 147 first-preference applications, 149 offers in total, 146 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.
- Eaton Bank Academy 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sandbach School 5.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College 5.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Alsager School 5.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School 5.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Macclesfield Academy 7.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- All Hallows Catholic College 7.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Fallibroome Academy 8.0 mi Good Last distance published