The School Record

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

Parkroyal Community School

URN 140438 · Primary · Academy converter · Cheshire East

Lyon Street, Macclesfield, SK11 6QX

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, 59 families named Parkroyal Community School as their first preference, and the school made 60 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 52% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 52% 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 1.09 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 59 109 60 0.98
2024 63 109 60 1.05
2023 64 115 60 1.07
2022 65 122 60 1.08
2021 66 112 60 1.10
2020 69 126 60 1.15
2019 80 151 60 1.33
2018 66 135 60 1.10
2017 68 111 60 1.13
2016 79 151 60 1.32
2015 88 143 60 1.47
2014 71 123 60 1.18

“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 2022 to 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 12 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Strong standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 30 March 2022

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 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 57.0% 5.0% 106.0 104.0
2023/24 52.0% 2.0% 104.0 101.0
2022/23 37.0% 2.0% 103.0 99.0

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 19.9 18.4 0.0 1.5 7.5%
2023/24 18.8 18.2 0.6 0.0 3.2%
2022/23 18.5 17.5 1.0 0.0 5.4%
2021/22 18.0 17.4 0.0 0.6 3.3%
2020/21 17.6 15.8 0.0 1.7 9.7%
2019/20 17.5 15.6 0.9 1.0 10.9%

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 (Parkroyal Community School (Part 1)).

Covers: 27 live postcodes across 0.207 km².

14 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.

Cheshire East publishes an admission zone for this school (Parkroyal Community School (Part 2)).

Covers: 621 live postcodes across 2.097 km².

47 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 Parkroyal Community 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 primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Parkroyal Community 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.