Upton Priory School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Macclesfield, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.64 miles
Criterion 6 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Upton Priory School is a primary school in Macclesfield, 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.
Upton Priory 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 | 0.64 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 Reception 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 0.64 miles away.
- The Reception last distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 or 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In Reception 2026 there were 29 first-choice applications for 30 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th highest 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
- Berwick Close, Off Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, SK10 3ED
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 277 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 31 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love attending Upton Priory School.”
- “They enjoy the warm welcome that they receive from staff each morning.”
- “Pupils understand and embody the school’s values of respect, cooperation, pride and resilience.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils have gaps in the important knowledge that they should know and remember.”
- “This is because, until recently, teachers did not focus closely enough in lessons on the precise knowledge that pupils should learn.”
- “As a result, pupils sometimes struggle to recall and build on their previous learning.”
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) | 63% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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 Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bollinbrook CofE (A) Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Whirley Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broken Cross Primary Academy and Nursery 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St John the Evangelist CofE Primary School Macclesfield 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Parkroyal Community School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Prestbury CofE Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published