Pikemere School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Alsager, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.211 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pikemere School is a primary school in Alsager, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 September 2022. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Pikemere 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 | 0.211 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 0.211 miles away, under one of its admission criteria.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 36 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% 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
- Pikemere Road, Cheshire East, Alsager, ST7 2SW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 254 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pikemere Primary School is a place where everyone is valued.”
- “Pupils, including children in the early years, love to come to school each day.”
- “Leaders expect pupils to work hard and to achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, a few subject leaders have not had the opportunity to check how well their curriculums are helping pupils to learn.”
- “Assessment strategies are not as well developed in these subjects to enable teachers to check on how well pupils have learned the curriculum.”
- “This means that, on occasions, pupils move on to new learning before they have embedded previously taught concepts securely.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 November 2022 (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) | 77% | 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: 36 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Cranberry Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alsager Highfields Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Rode Heath Primary School 1.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Excalibur Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Smallwood CofE Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scholar Green Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's CofE Academy 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published