Wistaston Church Lane Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.531 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wistaston Church Lane Academy is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 20 November 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wistaston Church Lane Academy 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 | 8.531 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, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place under one of its admission criteria lived 8.531 miles away, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 had 52 first-choice applications for 54 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 6.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 27.8% across the 8 nearest primary 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
- Church Lane, Wistaston, Crewe, CW2 8EZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 416 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 20 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe at Wisaston Church Lane Academy.”
- “They enjoy attending school and achieve highly.”
- “The school has high expectations for all pupils.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, this is less well embedded and pupils, at time, find it hard to remember enough of their learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 December 2024 (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) | 70% | 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: 52 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 52 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.
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Willaston Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vine Tree Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Berkeley Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published