Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
20.174 miles
5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 29 January 2025. Cheshire East and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive 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 | 20.174 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 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 20.174 miles from the school.
- Across the Year 7 years with a published outcome, the last distance swung sharply, and the 2026 figure was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2020.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 173 first-choice applications for 187 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 14 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 5th highest 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
- Selkirk Drive, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, CW4 7DX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 1,311 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 29 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils and students in the sixth form are proud to be part of this inclusive community.”
- “They feel safe when they are in school.”
- “They know who to speak to if they are worried or upset.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects at key stages 3 and 4, some teachers do not consistently use strategies that help pupils to learn key knowledge well.”
- “As a result, some pupils develop gaps in their knowledge and understanding.”
- “This prevents them from progressing as well as they should in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 March 2025 (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) | 44% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.2 | 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: 173 first-preference applications, 187 offers in total, 173 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.
- Middlewich High School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College 3.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Sandbach School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Congleton High School 5.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sir William Stanier School 6.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaton Bank Academy 7.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Alsager School 7.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Knutsford Academy 7.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published