Excalibur Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.473 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Excalibur Primary School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Excalibur 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 | 5.473 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 child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 5.473 miles away, under one of its admission criteria.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further out than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 24 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 84% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 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
- Ivy Lane, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2RQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 242 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are full of smiles as they arrive at Excalibur Primary School each morning.”
- “Kind and caring staff greet them warmly when they arrive.”
- “Positive relationships between staff and pupils are evident throughout the school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, where the curriculum requires further refinement, some staff lack the confidence and skills to deliver learning consistently well.”
- “This means that sometimes the activities that staff select do not support pupils to make secure enough connections between earlier learning and new concepts.”
- “Added to this, in these subjects, some staff do not afford pupils sufficient opportunities to revisit and consolidate essential knowledge, skills and vocabulary.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 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) | 84% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 24 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.
- Alsager Highfields Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Cranberry Academy 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pikemere School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rode Heath Primary School 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Scholar Green Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodcocks' Well CofE Primary School 3.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Smallwood CofE Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published