Holmes Chapel Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.621 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Holmes Chapel Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 February 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Holmes Chapel 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 | 5.621 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
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception in 2026 the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 5.621 miles away, nearer than in 2025 and in 2024.
- At the 2026 Reception entry there were 38 first-choice applications for 47 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 24.6 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East is 21.9.
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, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, CW4 7EB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 401 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 4 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are very proud to attend Holmes Chapel Primary School.”
- “They are greeted warmly each morning by staff and the school’s therapy dogs, Barra and Skye.”
- “Pupils’ behaviour is exemplary.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not keep up with the phonics programme.”
- “This is because they are not ready to learn the same sounds as the rest of the class and so cannot access this learning.”
- “Although these pupils receive additional support which is better matched to their needs, they do not learn to read as well as they might.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 March 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) | 69% | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 38 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.
- Hermitage Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Goostrey Community Primary School 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brereton CofE Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Offley Primary Academy 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cledford Primary & Nursery Academy 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Elworth Hall Primary School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Middlewich Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published