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Over Hall Community School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Academy
Ludlow Close, Winsford CW7 1LX · overhall.cheshire.sch.uk · 01606 663650
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 38%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Cheshire West and Chester 61%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Cheshire West and Chester Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 158
- 75% of 210 places
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 58.2%
- First language not English
- 9.5%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Expedition Schools
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Cheshire West and Chester Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 22 families put the school first and 22 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 22 | 22 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 24 | 24 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 25 | 24 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 38% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Cheshire West and Chester it was 61%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼38% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼103 | 106 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
| ●103 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Over Hall Community School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 6 March 2024, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 6 Mar 2024
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Oct 2021
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2021Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Dec 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Feb 2010Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
93% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (29 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 93%
- Replies
- 29
- 16% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 31% who had a child bullied