Highfields Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Nantwich, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.559 miles
Criterion 4 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Highfields Academy is a primary school in Nantwich, Cheshire East for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 9 October 2024. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Highfields 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 | 1.559 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 1.559 miles away, nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 22 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% 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
- Cumberland Avenue, Nantwich, CW5 6HA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 247 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 9 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are polite and thoughtful.”
- “They are proud to play their part in making sure that everyone is welcome in their school and that nobody feels left out.”
- “Pupils help to make the school a happy place to be.”
To improve
- “Staff recognise that the pace of curriculum improvement has increased the demands placed upon them.”
- “In these subjects, learning is not delivered as well as it is in others because teachers are still familiarising themselves with what pupils need to know.”
- “At times, some teachers do not check that pupils’ understanding is secure before moving on to new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 November 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) | 69% | 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: 22 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 22 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.
- Nantwich Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pear Tree Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Willaston Primary Academy 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Millfields Primary Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Weaver Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wistaston Church Lane Academy 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published