Cheadle Heath Primary School, Stockport

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades Cheadle Heath Primary School on 7 areas: 4 strong standard and 3 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders ensure that securing high attendance is everyone's responsibility."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Pupils with a range of additional needs thrive as a result of the school's nurturing and inclusive culture and environment."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders at all levels are highly ambitious for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school's highly effective personal development programme significantly enriches the experiences of pupils."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Typically, pupils achieve well."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have constructed an aspirational curriculum for each subject and year group."

Early years - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a well-considered and logically sequenced curriculum."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should build on their work to improve pupils' basic skills in writing and handwriting so that pupils across the school write with fluency and confidence"; "Leaders and governors should continue to develop their successful systems for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of their provision so that they lead to consistently high outcomes for pupils".

In its own words: "Come & Discover Us! Children born between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023 are due to start primary school in September 2027. As the closing date for 2027 admission is 15th January 2027, decisions have to made this term."

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care, from £5 per day.

Coming up: an admissions event on Tuesday 10 November 2026 and an open day on Tuesday 10 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils at Cheadle Heath Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 84% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 79% in Stockport and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 69% in reading and 60% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 46 families put Cheadle Heath Primary School as their first choice and 139 named it as one of their preferences, for 54 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Cheadle Heath Primary School are Alexandra Park Primary School (0.6 miles); Lark Hill Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 77% reading, 68% maths); Meadowbank Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 88% reading, 83% maths); and Mersey Vale Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 71% reading, 83% maths).

Cheadle Heath Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

108 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Cheadle Heath Primary School (as of April 2026): 98% would recommend the school, 98% say their child is happy there and 88% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they are kept well informed about progress (98%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (88%).

In 2026, 53 pupils (15.2%) received SEN support and 9 (2.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Cheadle Heath Primary School had 20 teachers in 2026, one for every 16 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Stockport Rail Station, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Heathside Road (near), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Cheadle Heath Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Cheadle Heath Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 0.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Cheadle Heath Primary School are Stockport Academy (0.3 miles) and Parrs Wood High School (1.3 miles).