Middlewich Primary School, Middlewich

Ofsted's report card from its 9 September 2026 inspection grades Middlewich Primary School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Early years - Strong standard. "The Reception Year provides a superb first stepping stone for children as they begin their primary education."

Achievement - Expected standard. "By the end of Year 6, pupils' attainment in reading, writing and mathematics is in line with the national average."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Leaders have recently refined their approaches to monitor and analyse attendance at the school."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Since the previous inspection, leaders have worked diligently to design a curriculum that is carefully ordered from the Reception Year through to Year 6."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders have established effective approaches that identify the barriers to learning that pupils may have."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and governors work well together."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils' faces light up when they begin to speak about the range of trips that they get to take part in during their time at school."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that staff have the information and training they need so that barriers to learning are swiftly removed for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities"; "Leaders should ensure that staff enable pupils to deepen their understanding so that more achieve at a greater depth in writing"; "Leaders should ensure that high levels of attendance are maintained over sustained periods of time for disadvantaged pupils".

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care.

In 2025, 84% of Year 6 pupils at Middlewich Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 75% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 80% and 78% in Cheshire East and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 75% in reading and 77% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 58 families put Middlewich Primary School as their first choice and 98 named it as one of their preferences, for 59 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 Middlewich Primary School are St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy (0.1 miles); Cledford Primary & Nursery Academy (0.7 miles); Wimboldsley Community Primary School (1.6 miles, 74% reading, 83% maths); and Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School (2.2 miles, 51% reading, 51% maths).

Middlewich Primary School's 2025 results were higher than all 2 of them.

62 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Middlewich Primary School (as of September 2026): 97% would recommend the school, 95% say their child is happy there and 100% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (100%); the weakest, that they are kept well informed about progress (84%).

14.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 2.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

Middlewich Primary School has a resourced provision for hearing impairment: 5 places, 2 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Winsford Rail Station, about 1.8 miles away in a straight line.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St Mary's School (outside), 230 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 100 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, public order offences and drug offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Cheshire East (61), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Middlewich Primary School issued 4 suspensions, 1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.