The School Record

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

Sir William Stanier School

URN 139953 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Cheshire East

Coronation Street, Crewe, CW1 4EB

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, 101 families named Sir William Stanier School as their first preference, and the school made 107 offers.

That is 0.94 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 46% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 46% 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 0.9 in 2021–2022 and 0.96 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 101 154 107 0.94
2024 130 186 134 0.97
2023 119 168 150 0.79
2022 126 159 150 0.84
2021 116 149 121 0.96
2020 92 126 125 0.74
2019 77 120 106 0.73
2018 144 199 151 0.95
2017 110 156 118 0.93
2016 137 192 141 0.97
2015 155 212 157 0.99
2014 153 181 157 0.97

“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 2024 to 202620242026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 28 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention

Achievement: Needs attention

Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention

Personal development and wellbeing: 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), 26 November 2024

Category of concern: Serious weaknesses

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 28.40 - 26.8% 1.6%
2023/24 29.60 -0.90
likely between -1.17 and -0.63		 31.9% 0.9%
2022/23 26.60 -1.36
likely between -1.60 and -1.12		 24.5% 2.0%

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 52.9 37.9 8.0 7.0 28.4%
2023/24 43.5 36.9 1.6 5.0 15.2%
2021/22 30.2 21.6 2.6 6.0 28.5%
2020/21 40.8 30.2 4.6 6.0 26.0%
2019/20 42.4 35.2 5.2 2.0 17.0%
2018/19 44.2 33.2 7.0 4.0 24.9%

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 (Sir William Stanier Community School).

Covers: 915 live postcodes across 30.537 km².

39 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 Sir William Stanier School. 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 Sir William Stanier School.

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.