Waverton Community Primary School, Chester

Ofsted's report card from its 3 March 2026 inspection grades Waverton Community Primary School on 7 areas: 6 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Rates of attendance for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and disadvantaged pupils, are above the national average."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed an ambitious curriculum that is carefully sequenced."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders know pupils well and identify barriers to learning promptly for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), disadvantaged pupils and those who face other barriers to learning."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders evaluate the school's work regularly and focus on the most important areas that need to be developed."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders provide a clear and coherent programme of personal development."

Early years - Needs attention. "The quality of staff's interactions with children in the early years is not consistently effective."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that all staff in the early years use high‑quality interactions to extend children's language and deepen learning, responding precisely to children's ages, stages and starting points"; "Leaders should raise expectations for what children in the early years can achieve, ensuring that progress is clear across the year and that children learn and develop as successfully as they can"; "Leaders and those responsible for governance should take action to strengthen their oversight of key systems and records, so that decisions are clearly evidence-based and governors can hold leaders to account with confidence"; "Leaders should ensure that teaching of writing across all year groups consistently challenges pupils who are capable of achieving beyond the expected standard, so that attainment in writing at greater depth improves in line with national expectations".

The school runs a breakfast club.

In 2025, 80% of Year 6 pupils at Waverton Community Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 90% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 78% and 74% in Cheshire West and Chester and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 97% in reading and 88% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 16 families put Waverton Community Primary School as their first choice and 55 named it as one of their preferences, for 16 places offered. That is one first choice for every place. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Waverton Community Primary School are Christleton Primary School (1.2 miles, Outstanding, 77% reading, 87% maths); Saighton Church of England Primary School & Pre-School (1.5 miles, Good, 85% reading, 85% maths); Huntington Community Primary School (1.9 miles, Good, 78% reading, 76% maths); and Boughton Heath Academy (2.1 miles, Outstanding, 91% reading, 94% maths).

Waverton Community Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

45 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Waverton Community Primary School (as of April 2026): 89% would recommend the school, 89% say their child is happy there and 50% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (96%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (50%).

3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 3.6% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (85%) and Mixed (7%).

In 2026, 16 pupils (8.1%) received SEN support and 4 (2%) 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 social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Chester Rail Station, about 3.1 miles away in a straight line.

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Moor Lane (opposite), 90 metres away.

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

In August 2026, police recorded 4 crimes within a mile of the school, most often criminal damage and arson and violence and sexual offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Cheshire West and Chester (71).

Waverton Community Primary School recorded no suspensions or permanent exclusions in 2024/25.