St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Macclesfield, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.402 miles
Criterion 8 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is a primary school in Macclesfield, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 February 2025. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary 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 | 0.402 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
- Under one of its admission criteria, the last Reception place in 2026 went to a child 0.402 miles away; the 2026 figure was the shortest of 3 published years.
- The last distance offered for Reception has swung sharply between years, with the biggest move coming from 2024 to 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 23 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Priory Lane, Macclesfield, SK10 3HJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 268 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 4 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy being part of this caring and welcoming school.”
- “They know that staff care about them as individuals.”
- “The school makes sure pupils are safe and feel secure.”
To improve
- “However, in some other subjects, pupils do not learn all that they should.”
- “In other parts of the curriculum, some subjects are not as well embedded.”
- “For a couple of subjects, the school has not clearly defined the most important knowledge that it wants pupils to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2025 (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) | 48% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 23 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.
- Upton Priory School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broken Cross Primary Academy and Nursery 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Whirley Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John the Evangelist CofE Primary School Macclesfield 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bollinbrook CofE (A) Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Parkroyal Community School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ivy Bank Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published