Goostrey Community Primary School, Near Crewe
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Goostrey creates a caring community where children thrive emotionally and academically. The school excels at enriching pupils' horizons through international partnerships, artist visits, residential trips and diverse cultural experiences. Teaching is well-supported by strong subject knowledge, and the school is particularly skilled at helping all pupils - including those with additional needs - learn successfully alongside their peers.
Key Strengths
- Exceptional personal development programme including emotional wellbeing support and structured teaching of fundamental British values
- Strong partnerships and enrichment opportunities, including a long-standing exchange with a South African school
- Well-designed, thoughtfully sequenced curriculum with particularly strong writing and phonics teaching
- Excellent inclusion support with staff trained to identify and meet individual needs early
- Warm, respectful relationships between staff and pupils with rare incidents of bullying or discrimination
Areas for Improvement
- Some pupils do not achieve the depth of knowledge they could in their learning
- Feedback on pupils' work sometimes does not help them improve or deepen their understanding
- Attendance for disadvantaged pupils has declined and is below the national average for similar pupils
- Leaders do not analyse attendance patterns systematically enough
- Early years play-based activities sometimes lack clear learning purpose
- Governance oversight processes could be more robust in holding leaders to account
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed, making pupils safer and helping them feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
South Africa school exchange visits and hosting, artist visits every year group, residential trips building progressively through year groups, world faith visitors including monks and mosque representatives
Goostrey Community Primary School is a well-established primary school in Cheshire that provides a caring, inclusive community where pupils are happy, confident and well-prepared for their future. The school has achieved above-average test results in reading, writing and mathematics for consecutive years.
At a Glance
8.1%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 80% to 93%. Maths has remained stable at around 89%. Writing has remained stable at around 86%.
Class Sizes
29.0
Avg class size
29.0
Infant (KS1)
29.0
KS2
7
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
94%
Near capacity
197 pupils
210 capacity
13 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Near Crewe
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Admissions Demand - Cheshire East
Places available
4,553
Applications
3,886
Got 1st preference
93.6%
Got preferred school
98.9%
Primary admissions across Cheshire East (2025/26)
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Pupil Absence2024/25
3.62133%
Overall absence
7.38636%
Persistent absence
176
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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