The School Record

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

Knutsford Academy

URN 138002 · Secondary · Academy converter · Cheshire East

Bexton Road, Knutsford, WA16 0EA

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 239 families named Knutsford Academy as their first preference, and the school made 229 offers.

That is 1.04 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 66% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 66% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.1 in 2021–2022 and 1.11 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 239 429 229 1.04
2024 258 483 220 1.17
2023 212 455 220 0.96
2022 265 541 222 1.19
2021 222 597 220 1.01
2020 237 565 279 0.85
2019 188 525 268 0.70
2018 192 532 255 0.75
2017 157 536 217 0.72
2016 163 595 227 0.72
2015 136 573 220 0.62
2014 157 618 248 0.63

“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.

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), 10 March 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard

Achievement: Strong standard

Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Sixth form / post-16: Expected standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 4 November 2021

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

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 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 54.90 - 85.4% 42.0%
2023/24 54.20 -0.03
likely between -0.24 and 0.18		 86.1% 34.8%
2022/23 52.70 0.05
likely between -0.16 and 0.26		 77.0% 38.0%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

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 87.2 76.2 6.0 5.0 12.6%
2023/24 84.2 74.2 5.4 4.6 11.9%
2021/22 76.1 64.1 5.0 7.0 15.8%
2020/21 67.1 61.8 1.0 4.3 7.9%
2019/20 63.7 59.1 2.0 2.6 7.2%
2018/19 61.5 57.3 2.0 2.2 6.8%

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 (Knutsford Academy / Knutsford Academy: The Studio).

Covers: 982 live postcodes across 112.682 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.

Cheshire East publishes an admission zone for this school (SharedArea:Knutsford Academy/Knutsford Academy:The Studio/University of Chester Academy,Northwich).

Covers: 36 live postcodes across 4.217 km².

1 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.

The school building sits outside this area. Sometimes that is normal, because the area is drawn around the streets a school serves rather than around the school itself. But it can also mean the area has been joined to the wrong school. Treat it with care.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Knutsford Academy. 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 secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Knutsford Academy.

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.