Ivy Bank Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Macclesfield, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.293 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ivy Bank Primary School is a primary school in Macclesfield, Cheshire East for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ivy Bank 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 | 5.293 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 2026 the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 5.293 miles away.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, with the biggest move from 2024 to 2025; the 2026 figure was about the same as 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 37 first-choice applications for 43 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% 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
- Valley Road, Macclesfield, SK11 8PB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 387 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy learning at this school.”
- “They try hard in their lessons.”
- “Pupils, and children in the early years, are learning more and achieving more highly than in the past.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders are less clear about these small steps and the order in which pupils should encounter them.”
- “On occasions, this hinders teachers in designing learning and makes it harder for pupils to link new knowledge with earlier learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 May 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) | 56% | 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, 43 offers in total, 37 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 John the Evangelist CofE Primary School Macclesfield 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broken Cross Primary Academy and Nursery 0.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Ash Grove Academy 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic and Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Parkroyal Community School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Gawsworth Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whirley Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published