Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Congleton, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.518 miles
Criterion 7 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School is a primary school in Congleton, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 March 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Astbury St Mary's CofE 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 | 0.518 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
- Under one of its admission criteria, the 2026 Reception last distance offered was 0.518 miles, nearer than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 had 16 first-choice applications for 15 offers; 14 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 15% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The school has 28.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 23.9 across 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
- School Lane, Astbury, Congleton, CW12 4RG
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 99 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to come to Astbury St Mary’s CofE Primary School.”
- “They said that they enjoy learning.”
- “Staff welcome pupils warmly into school every day.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, leaders have not made what pupils should learn as clear to teachers.”
- “Added to this, some teachers lack clarity on the order in which some of this content should be delivered.”
- “This means that some teachers are not sure about what to teach and when learning should happen.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 May 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) | 15% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 14 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.
- Marlfields Primary School 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- The Quinta Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Daven Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Black Firs Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mossley CofE Primary School 1.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Buglawton Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Havannah Primary School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published