Worth Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Poynton, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.648 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Worth Primary School is a primary school in Poynton, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 28 November 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Worth 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 | 1.648 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
- For Reception entry in 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 1.648 miles from the school.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer than in 2025 but further than in 2024, and it swung sharply between some years.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception in 2026, there were 14 first-choice applications for 13 offers; 13 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (7%) was not offered a place.
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
- Birch Road, Poynton, SK12 1QA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 28 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to Worth Primary School.”
- “They enjoy being part of a welcoming and inclusive school community where they feel safe, valued and cared for.”
- “Kindness and care shape daily life in school.”
To improve
- “However, achievement is not as consistent across these subjects as it is in English and mathematics.”
- “Some disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND do not develop the same depth of knowledge in parts of the wider curriculum.”
- “Leaders recognise that attendance remains a variable picture for a small number of pupils.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 September 2026 (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) | 65% | 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: 14 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.
- Vernon Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lower Park School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lostock Hall Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Adlington Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pott Shrigley CofE Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Disley Primary School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dean Valley Community Primary School 3.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published