Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Nantwich, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.872 miles
Criterion 6 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School is a primary school in Nantwich, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 7 January 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Stapeley Broad Lane CofE 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 | 0.872 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
- Free school meal eligibility is 2.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 14.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.872 miles away, under one of its admission criteria; the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- The last distance has swung sharply between years, the biggest move coming from 2025 to 2026; Reception 2026 had 18 first-choice applications for 18 offers.
- In 2024/25, 45% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary 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
- Broad Lane, Stapeley, Nantwich, CW5 7QL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 232 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 7 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are very proud to attend this school.”
- “This is the ‘Stapeley Way’, which guides the exceptional manner in which pupils conduct themselves in all that they do.”
- “Pupils happily greet visitors.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the school has not clearly defined the key knowledge and skills that pupils must know.”
- “This means that staff do not have all of the information that they need to help pupils to learn as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 January 2025 (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) | 45% | 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: 18 first-preference applications, 18 offers in total, 18 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.
- Pear Tree Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Weaver Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Nantwich Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willaston Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Highfields Academy 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Millfields Primary Academy 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wybunbury Delves CofE Primary School 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published