The School Record

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

Ash Grove Academy

URN 140444 · Primary · Academy converter · Cheshire East

Belgrave Road, Macclesfield, SK11 7TF

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, 37 families named Ash Grove Academy as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 1.23 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 91% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 91% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.96 in 2021–2022 and 1.08 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 37 71 30 1.23
2024 25 35 27 0.93
2023 26 42 27 0.96
2022 20 43 21 0.95
2021 26 44 27 0.96
2020 32 51 30 1.07
2019 26 48 27 0.96
2018 41 57 30 1.37
2017 35 56 30 1.17
2016 36 67 29 1.24
2015 25 49 29 0.86
2014 27 47 29 0.93

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 15 May 2024

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

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 58.0% 3.0% 104.0 103.0
2023/24 60.0% 7.0% 108.0 106.0
2022/23 87.0% 3.0% 107.0 105.0

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 14.1 11.3 2.8 0.0 19.9%
2023/24 14.2 12.8 0.0 1.4 9.9%
2022/23 14.9 14.5 0.0 0.4 2.7%
2021/22 15.8 12.8 2.0 1.0 19.0%
2020/21 16.8 14.8 0.0 2.0 11.9%
2019/20 16.6 15.8 0.0 0.8 4.8%

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 (Ash Grove Academy).

Covers: 134 live postcodes across 2.445 km².

31 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 Ash Grove 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 primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Ash Grove 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.