Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Crewe, Cheshire East
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
12.32 miles
Criterion 5 · Published by Cheshire East Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy is a primary school in Crewe, Cheshire East for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Cheshire East has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy 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 | 12.32 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place under one of its admission criteria lived 12.32 miles away, the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- This Reception distance has swung sharply between years, and the biggest move was from 2025 to 2026.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 37 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 33rd highest of 121 Cheshire East primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 27.8% are eligible for free school meals, compared with a middle figure of 30.9% 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
- Belgrave Road, Crewe, CW2 7NH
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Sector
- State-funded
- Council
- Cheshire East
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 37 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.
- Vine Tree Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Edleston Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Wistaston Academy 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Pebble Brook Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Beechwood Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Underwood West Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Brierley Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published