Hermitage Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.823 miles
Criterion 3 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hermitage Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Hermitage 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 | 0.823 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
- Reception 2026 had 37 first-choice applications for 29 offers, 1.3 first choices per offer, the 8th highest of 121 Cheshire East primary schools.
- For Reception in 2026, 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a 2026 Reception place under one of its admission criteria lived 0.823 miles away, the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Hermitage Drive, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, CW4 7NP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their school.”
- “They are happy and relish social times with their friends and learning alongside them in lessons.”
- “Pupils embrace the wide range of experiences on offer to them.”
To improve
- “In one or two subjects, and in some areas of learning in the early years, the school has not broken down the most important content in the curriculum to the same extent.”
- “This means that some teachers are unsure of the essential knowledge that pupils should learn and revisit.”
- “Consequently, these teachers’ checks on what pupils have learned are not as effective as they should be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2023 (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) | 60% | 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: 37 first-preference applications, 29 offers in total, 29 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.
- Holmes Chapel Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Goostrey Community Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brereton CofE Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Offley Primary Academy 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elworth Hall Primary School 4.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Peover Superior Endowed Primary School 4.1 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Cledford Primary & Nursery Academy 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's CofE Academy 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published