The School Record

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

Sandbach Primary Academy

URN 141809 · Primary · Academy converter · Cheshire East

Crewe Road, Sandbach, CW11 4NS

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, 19 families named Sandbach Primary Academy as their first preference, and the school made 22 offers.

That is 0.86 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 15% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 15% 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 0.7 in 2021–2022 and 0.93 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 10 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 19 46 22 0.86
2024 15 36 15 1.00
2023 20 55 27 0.74
2022 15 43 15 1.00
2021 6 31 15 0.40
2020 10 32 15 0.67
2019 7 27 13 0.54
2018 9 30 15 0.60
2017 9 16 9 -
2016 19 31 15 1.27

“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 2023 to 202420232024

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 1 October 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

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

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 15 February 2023

School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next

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 75.0% 0.0% 109.0 106.0
2023/24 73.0% 0.0% 108.0 105.0
2022/23 75.0% 0.0% 106.0 106.0

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 6.5 4.5 1.0 1.0 30.8%
2023/24 5.3 3.1 0.0 2.2 41.5%
2022/23 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2021/22 5.7 4.1 1.6 0.0 28.1%
2020/21 6.1 4.8 0.6 0.7 21.3%
2019/20 4.8 4.8 0.0 0.0 0.0%

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 (Sandbach Primary Academy).

Covers: 73 live postcodes across 1.969 km².

27 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 (St John's Church of England Primary School, Sandbach Heath).

Covers: 54 live postcodes across 1.471 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of St John's CofE Primary School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

15 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.

Shared with: St John's CofE Primary School. The council publishes one area for these schools together, so the same streets belong to all of them.

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 Sandbach Primary 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 Sandbach Primary 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.