Pear Tree Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · NANTWICH, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.724 miles
Criterion 4 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pear Tree Primary School is a primary school in NANTWICH, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 September 2022. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Pear Tree 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 | 4.724 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 in 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 4.724 miles away, and that was the longest of the 3 years.
- In 2024/25, 75% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers, and every first-choice family was 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
- Pear Tree Field, Stapeley, NANTWICH, CW5 7GZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 214 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to Pear Tree Primary School.”
- “They feel safe and well looked after by staff.”
- “Pupils and their parents and carers have great confidence in the school’s leaders and staff.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, staff’s subject knowledge is less well developed.”
- “There have been only limited opportunities available for training to improve their knowledge further.”
- “This makes it more difficult for staff to deliver the curriculum well, and pupils learn less well in these subjects as a result.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 November 2022 (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) | 75% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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.
- Weaver Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Highfields Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Nantwich Primary Academy 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willaston Primary Academy 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Millfields Primary Academy 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published