The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Beechwood Primary School and Nursery

URN 111211 · Primary · Community school · Cheshire East

Meredith Street, Crewe, CW1 2PH

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 57 families named Beechwood Primary School and Nursery as their first preference, and the school made 60 offers.

That is 0.95 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 37% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 37% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 in 2021–2022 and 1.02 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 57 96 60 0.95
2024 66 112 60 1.10
2023 64 114 60 1.07
2022 56 95 58 0.97
2021 43 87 45 0.96
2020 61 99 45 1.36
2019 76 129 60 1.27
2018 56 98 45 1.24
2017 65 101 45 1.44
2016 69 115 50 1.38
2015 50 80 54 0.93
2014 60 107 52 1.15

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2021 to 202620212026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 27 January 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 29 September 2021

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 44.0% 0.0% 102.0 102.0
2023/24 59.0% 5.0% 104.0 105.0
2022/23 57.0% 5.0% 105.0 103.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 21.4 20.4 1.0 0.0 4.7%
2023/24 23.0 19.6 0.0 3.4 14.8%
2022/23 19.4 16.7 1.7 1.0 13.9%
2021/22 20.5 17.7 1.8 1.0 13.7%
2020/21 18.9 18.9 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 20.8 18.3 0.0 2.5 12.0%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Cheshire East publishes an admission zone for this school (Beechwood Primary School and Nursery).

Covers: 199 live postcodes across 0.969 km².

25 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Beechwood Primary School and Nursery. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Beechwood Primary School and Nursery.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.