Willaston Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Nantwich, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.266 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Willaston Primary Academy is a primary school in Nantwich, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 July 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Willaston Primary 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 | 5.266 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 5.266 miles from the school.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years, further than in 2025 and 2024.
- In 2026 Reception entry, there were 27 first-choice applications for 27 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th 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
- Derwent Close, Willaston, Nantwich, CW5 6QQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 251 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 July 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils feel safe and happy in this harmonious school.”
- “For example, staff reward pupils when they spread kindness and happiness to others.”
- “On those rare occasions when unkindness or bullying occurs, leaders act swiftly and decisively to resolve it.”
To improve
- “However, in other subjects, they do not focus assessment strategies sharply on the important knowledge that pupils should remember.”
- “This means that teachers do not have sufficient oversight of what pupils have learned.”
- “Some pupils develop gaps in their knowledge, which teachers do not swiftly address.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 September 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) | 58% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 27 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.
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Highfields Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Pear Tree Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Berkeley Academy 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Nantwich Primary Academy 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Vine Tree Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published