Alsager Highfields Community Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.314 miles
Criterion 4 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alsager Highfields Community Primary School is a primary school in Stoke-on-Trent, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Alsager Highfields Community 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 | 2.314 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
- In 2024/25, 72% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 the last distance offered was 2.314 miles, under one of its admission criteria, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- There were 23 first-choice applications for 25 Reception offers in 2026; every first-choice family was offered a place and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 22.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 10.8% 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
- Fairview Avenue, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 2NW
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 223 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “Alsager Highfields is a friendly and welcoming school.”
- “Relationships between adults, pupils and their families are positive.”
- “Leaders have created a nurturing environment, so pupils feel cared for, valued and safe.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, such as computing, the curriculum is less well developed.”
- “Leaders have not fully mapped out what pupils need to know and remember.”
- “This means that teachers do not always check that pupils remember the most important knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 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) | 72% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 23 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.
- St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Excalibur Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Pikemere School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cranberry Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rode Heath Primary School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Scholar Green Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Smallwood CofE Primary School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodcocks' Well CofE Primary School 3.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published