Alsager School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
9.049 miles
6 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alsager School is a secondary school in Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 17 January 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Alsager 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 | 9.049 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
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and progress from GCSE to A level was well above average.
- Year 7's 2026 last distance offered was 9.049 miles, under one of its admission criteria; it was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2024.
- Year 7 in 2026 drew 245 first-choice applications for 252 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 13.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 29.4% across 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
- Hassall Road, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2HR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Sector
- State-funded
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 1,528 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 17 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils, and students in the sixth form, are happy and safe at this school.”
- “They forge strong relationships with staff and with other pupils.”
- “Pupils explained that they like and respect each other, regardless of any differences that they may have.”
To improve
- “However, there remains a small number of pupils, and parents and carers, who worry about the impact of bullying.”
- “However, in one or two subjects at key stages 3 and 4, the curriculum is still being developed.”
- “In these subjects, on occasions, some pupils do not gain the depth of knowledge that they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 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) | 52% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 51.9 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | 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: 245 first-preference applications, 252 offers in total, 245 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.
- Sandbach School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Sir William Stanier School 4.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cheshire Studio School 5.2 mi School remains Good
- Crewe Engineering and Design UTC 5.2 mi Not judged
- Ruskin Community High School 5.4 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Congleton High School 5.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Oaks Academy 5.8 mi Good Last distance published