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Alsager Highfields Community Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–11 · Sponsored academy
Fairview Avenue, Alsager, Stoke-on-Trent ST7 2NW · alsagerhighfields.com · 01270 882472
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Mar 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 72%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Cheshire East 65%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Cheshire East Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 223
- 71% of 315 places
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 22.5%
- First language not English
- 6.3%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- The Cornovii Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Cheshire East Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 23 families put the school first and 25 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 | 25 | 23 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 23 | 21 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 37 | 23 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 22 | 18 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 16 | 12 | 0.8 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 72% 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 East it was 65%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▲72% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▲109 | 106 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
| ●106 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 111032)
Ofsted
Alsager Highfields Community Primary School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 21 March 2023, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework.
- Overall
- Good
- Inspected
- 21 Mar 2023
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Inadequate, graded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 111032), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Inadequate
Quality of education Inadequate Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Good Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 111032)
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 111032)
Oct 2008Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 111032)
What parents said
86% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (90 replies, to 1 January 2024).
- Recommend
- 86%
- Replies
- 90
- 41% · 1 Jan 2024
based on the 78% who raised concerns
based on the 29% who had a child bullied
based on 29 parents (32%) with SEND