Wheelock Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Sandbach, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.455 miles
Criterion 4 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wheelock Primary School is a primary school in Sandbach, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wheelock 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 | 4.455 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
- The last Reception child offered a place in 2026 under one of its admission criteria lived 4.455 miles away, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and in 2024.
- For Reception 2026, there were 38 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 17 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 2% 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
- Crewe Road, Sandbach, CW11 4PY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 394 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy belonging to the Wheelock family.”
- “They said that this makes them feel happy, cared for and safe.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the school ‘behaviours’ well.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects in key stages 1 and 2, the key knowledge that pupils must learn is less clear.”
- “This means that teachers are sometimes unsure about what pupils need to know.”
- “This results in pupils not having the secure foundations on which to build new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 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) | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 38 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.
- Sandbach Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elworth Hall Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Elworth CofE Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Offley Primary Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John's CofE Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Dingle Primary School 2.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Warmingham CofE Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Haslington Primary Academy 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published