The Acorns Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.902 miles
Published by Cheshire West and Chester Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2016–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Acorns Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire West and Chester for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 11 June 2025. Cheshire West and Chester has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2016 to 2026 entry.
The Acorns Primary and Nursery 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 | 0.902 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 0.902 miles, the 15th shortest of 42 Cheshire West and Chester primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2016, and it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2022 to 2023.
- For Reception 2026 there were 44 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 56% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest Cheshire West and Chester primary schools.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Cheshire West and Chester schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Pooltown Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 7ED
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Pupils on roll
- 356 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 11 June 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and proud to be part of the Acorns ‘family’.”
- “They are polite and respectful towards each other, staff and visitors.”
- “They rise to meet the high expectations that staff set for them.”
To improve
- “In 2024, Year 6 pupils did not attain as well as they could have in the national mathematics test.”
- “This is because the school did not accurately address the gaps which existed for that cohort of pupils following the COVID-19 pandemic.”
- “Nonetheless, in some subjects, the learning activities that staff choose are not well selected to deliver the intended curriculum content.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 July 2025 (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) | 56% | 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: 44 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 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 West and Chester.
- Brookside Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- William Stockton Community Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Rivacre Valley Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Westminster Community Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Saviour's Catholic Primary and Nursery School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published