Audlem St James' CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.884 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Audlem St James' CofE Primary School is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 October 2023. Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Audlem St James' 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 | 5.884 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 in 2026 lived 5.884 miles away under one of its admission criteria, nearer than in 2025 and about the same as in 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 16 first-choice applications for 16 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- For Reception 2026, 6 of the 26 applications (23%) came from families living outside Cheshire East; 1 offer went to them.
- 70% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 5th 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
- Heathfield Road, Audlem, Crewe, CW3 0HH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 173 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Audlem St James’ and rarely miss a day of school.”
- “Children in the early years settle into school life well.”
- “In key stages 1 and 2, pupils also follow the school rules carefully.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the school has recently revised the curriculum content and its approach to checking what pupils know and can do.”
- “In these subjects, some teachers are not as confident in how to deliver elements of these revised curriculums.”
- “Added to this, on occasion, teachers do not identify and address the gaps in aspects of some pupils’ knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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) | 70% | 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, 16 offers in total, 16 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.
- Sound and District Primary School 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Bridgemere CofE Primary School 3.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wybunbury Delves CofE Primary School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Weaver Primary School 4.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wrenbury Primary School 4.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 4.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Pear Tree Primary School 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published