Voluntary aided school · Primary
Crewe · CW2 8AD · Cheshire East
Ages 3–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 140647
Wistaston Academy
Academy converter · Crewe · CW2 8QS
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 3–11
Pupils
491
Local authority
Cheshire East
Age range
Ages 3–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 3–11, in Crewe, Cheshire East, 491 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery, academy. Free school meals: 30.9%. SEN provision includes: SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 140647
Location
- Address
- Moreton Road
- Postcode
- CW2 8QS
- Town
- Crewe
- County
- Cheshire
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- District
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 491
- Boys / girls
- 271 / 220
- School capacity
- 472
- Capacity fill
- 491 / 472 (104%)
- Free school meals
- 30.9%
- FSM pupils
- 146
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: WISTASTON ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- WISTASTON ACADEMY TRUST
SEN & specialist provision
SEN types and resourced/SEN unit places as recorded in GIAS. This is provision detail, not an Ofsted judgement.
- SEN types
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Resourced provision
- SEN unit
- SEN unit places
- 32 on roll / 24 capacity
Contact
- Headteacher
- Ms Dominique Griffiths
- Telephone
- 01270910500
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Outstanding
Inspection date
2024-07-16
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 58%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 104.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 100.0