Shavington Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.777 miles
Criterion 3 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shavington Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 31 January 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Shavington 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 | 0.777 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 2026 the last child offered a Reception place under one of its admission criteria lived 0.777 miles away, about the same as 2025 and nearer than 2024.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years since 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 66 first-choice applications for 57 offers; 54 offers went to first-choice families, so 12 first-choice families (18%) were not offered a place.
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Cheshire East that have results.
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
- Southbank Avenue, Shavington, Crewe, CW2 5BP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 477 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 31 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and enjoy attending Shavington Primary School.”
- “They pride themselves on making everyone welcome.”
- “Pupils celebrate each person’s uniqueness.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, the school is still refining its work to ensure that teachers are clear about what pupils should learn.”
- “This means that, on occasions, teachers find it difficult to design learning that helps pupils to gain important knowledge.”
- “This leads to gaps in some pupils’ learning that prevents them from successfully building on what they already know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 March 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) | 83% | 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: 66 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 54 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.
- The Berkeley Academy 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vine Tree Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wybunbury Delves CofE Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Willaston Primary Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published