Marlfields Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Congleton, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.611 miles
Criterion 4 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marlfields Primary School is a primary school in Congleton, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Marlfields 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 | 5.611 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, 28% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East.
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 5.611 miles away, the shortest of the 3 years.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 19 first-choice applications for 21 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
- Waggs Road, Congleton, CW12 4BT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 177 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are greeted warmly by staff each morning as they arrive at school.”
- “This positive start to the school day means that they typically feel safe and attend regularly.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are positive.”
To improve
- “On occasion, they can be distracted in their learning by pupils who struggle to manage their emotions.”
- “Some pupils do not feel that adults deal with poor behaviour consistently well.”
- “They are not confident that further incidents are prevented.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 September 2026 (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) | 28% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 19 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.
- Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Daven Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Quinta Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Buglawton Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Black Firs Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Havannah Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mossley CofE Primary School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published