Marlfields Primary School
Congleton, CW12 4BT · Cheshire East local authority
Congleton’s School Grade C+ better than 40% of towns in England
What stands out about Marlfields Primary School
- Its own letter, D: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 5%)
- 39% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23 points below England’s schools
- 41% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, July 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (19 of 19)
- Homes in its postcode sector (CW12 4) sold for a median £282,500; Congleton’s is £290,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 39%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 5% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Cheshire East avg 64%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 11 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Marlfields Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Children First Learning Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through Cheshire East council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
Congleton and Cheshire East, side by side
2023–2025All 120 graded primaries in Cheshire East. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Congleton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashdene Primary School | A+ | 2% | 91% |
| Bexton Primary School | A+ | 5% | 90% |
| Wincle CofE Primary School | A+ | 6% | 89% |
| Rode Heath Primary School | A+ | 11% | 87% |
| Adlington Primary School | A+ | 3% | 83% |
| Bridgemere CofE Primary School | A | 17% | 82% |
| Lacey Green Primary Academy | A | 11% | 82% |
| Gorsey Bank Primary School | A | 3% | 82% |
| Excalibur Primary School | A | 9% | 82% |
| Wistaston Church Lane Academy | A | 7% | 81% |
| Peover Superior Endowed Primary School | A | 6% | 81% |
| Calveley Primary Academy | A | 14% | 81% |
| Egerton Primary School | A | 8% | 81% |
| Goostrey Community Primary School | A | 8% | 80% |
| Lostock Hall Primary School | A | 6% | 80% |
| Disley Primary School | A | 6% | 79% |
| Vernon Primary School | A | 5% | 78% |
| Prestbury CofE Primary School | A | 3% | 77% |
| Lindow Community Primary School | A | 9% | 76% |
| Pikemere School | A | 7% | 76% |
| Sandbach Primary Academy | A− | 39% | 74% |
| Sound and District Primary School | A− | 8% | 73% |
| Mottram St Andrew Primary Academy | A− | 7% | 73% |
| The Dingle Primary School | A− | 11% | 72% |
| Elworth CofE Primary School | A− | 11% | 72% |
| Handforth Grange Primary School | A− | 12% | 72% |
| St. Mary's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | A− | 15% | 72% |
| Pear Tree Primary School | A− | 10% | 71% |
| Acton Church of England Primary Academy | A− | 11% | 71% |
| Weaver Primary School | B+ | 9% | 70% |
| Hermitage Primary School | B+ | 7% | 70% |
| Mossley CofE Primary School | B+ | 4% | 70% |
| Weston Village Primary School | B+ | 11% | 70% |
| St Gabriel's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 3% | 69% |
| Wistaston Academy | B+ | 31% | 69% |
| Smallwood CofE Primary School | B+ | 7% | 69% |
| Wybunbury Delves CofE Primary School | B+ | 6% | 69% |
| Scholar Green Primary School | B+ | 14% | 68% |
| High Legh Primary School | B+ | 9% | 68% |
| Rainow Primary School | B+ | 5% | 68% |
| Bollington Cross CofE Primary School | B+ | 17% | 68% |
| Ash Grove Academy | B+ | 30% | 68% |
| The Quinta Primary School | B+ | 9% | 68% |
| Marlborough Primary School | B+ | 6% | 68% |
| Manor Park Primary School and Nursery | B+ | 38% | 68% |
| Lower Park School | B+ | 4% | 68% |
| Worth Primary School | B | 7% | 67% |
| Nether Alderley Primary School | B | 6% | 67% |
| Dean Valley Community Primary School | B | 5% | 66% |
| Mobberley CofE Primary School | B | 10% | 66% |
| Whirley Primary School | B | 5% | 66% |
| Chelford CofE Primary School | B | 14% | 65% |
| Bickerton Holy Trinity CofE Primary School | B | 11% | 65% |
| St John the Evangelist CofE Primary School Macclesfield | B | 18% | 65% |
| Middlewich Primary School | B | 15% | 65% |
| Cranberry Academy | B | 11% | 65% |
| The Berkeley Academy | B | 10% | 65% |
| Willaston Primary Academy | B | 11% | 65% |
| The Wilmslow Academy | B | 20% | 65% |
| Offley Primary Academy | B | 11% | 65% |
| Cledford Primary & Nursery Academy | B | 25% | 65% |
| Brierley Primary School | B− | 31% | 64% |
| Gawsworth Primary School | B− | 5% | 64% |
| Buglawton Primary School | B− | 32% | 63% |
| Pebble Brook Primary School | B− | 33% | 63% |
| Kettleshulme St James CofE (VA) Primary School | B− | 14% | 63% |
| Black Firs Primary School | B− | 7% | 63% |
| Broken Cross Primary Academy and Nursery | B− | 44% | 63% |
| Audlem St James' CofE Primary School | B− | 8% | 63% |
| Pott Shrigley CofE Primary School | B− | 19% | 62% |
| Highfields Academy | B− | 15% | 62% |
| Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy | B− | 28% | 62% |
| Leighton Academy | B− | 22% | 61% |
| Shavington Primary School | B− | 14% | 61% |
| Monks Coppenhall Academy | B− | 33% | 61% |
| Bunbury Aldersey CofE Primary School | B− | 4% | 61% |
| Styal Primary School | C+ | 21% | 60% |
| Havannah Primary School | C+ | 20% | 60% |
| Holmes Chapel Primary School | C+ | 7% | 60% |
| St Paul's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C+ | 16% | 60% |
| St Anne's Fulshaw C of E Primary School | C+ | 11% | 59% |
| Saint Mary's Catholic Primary School | C+ | 20% | 58% |
| Wheelock Primary School | C+ | 13% | 58% |
| Edleston Primary School | C | 29% | 57% |
| Bollington St John's CofE Primary School | C | 7% | 57% |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | C | 15% | 57% |
| St Alban's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C | 18% | 57% |
| Upton Priory School | C | 24% | 57% |
| Brereton CofE Primary School | C | 12% | 57% |
| Alsager Highfields Community Primary School | C | 23% | 57% |
| Millfields Primary Academy | C | 25% | 57% |
| Marton and District CofE Aided Primary School | C | 13% | 56% |
| St Oswald's Worleston CofE Primary School | C | 9% | 56% |
| Elworth Hall Primary School | C | 9% | 56% |
| Wrenbury Primary School | C | 29% | 55% |
| Mablins Lane Community Primary School | C | 20% | 54% |
| Stapeley Broad Lane CofE Primary School | C | 3% | 54% |
| Ivy Bank Primary School | C | 17% | 54% |
| Puss Bank School and Nursery | C | 21% | 54% |
| Haslington Primary Academy | C | 11% | 54% |
| Christ The King Catholic and Church of England Primary School | C | 39% | 54% |
| Beechwood Primary School and Nursery | C− | 38% | 53% |
| Daven Primary School | C− | 58% | 53% |
| St. Benedict's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C− | 24% | 53% |
| Vine Tree Primary School | C− | 20% | 51% |
| Parkroyal Community School | C− | 12% | 49% |
| Nantwich Primary Academy | C− | 42% | 49% |
| Hungerford Primary Academy | C− | 27% | 48% |
| Warmingham CofE Primary School | D | 26% | 47% |
| Hollinhey Primary School | D | 12% | 47% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Crewe | D | 18% | 46% |
| St Michael's Community Academy | D | 45% | 46% |
| Bollinbrook CofE (A) Primary School | D | 20% | 45% |
| Hurdsfield Community Primary School and Nursery | D | 44% | 45% |
| Underwood West Academy | D | 51% | 41% |
| Marlfields Primary School | D | 41% | 39% |
| Little Bollington CofE Primary School | D− | 29% | 34% |
| Astbury St Mary's CofE Primary School | D− | 11% | 31% |
| Woodcocks' Well CofE Primary School | D− | 14% | 28% |
| Bosley St Mary's CofE Primary School | D− | 9% | 0% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025182 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Marlfields Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting July 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Requires improvement, March 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns), May 2022.
Living near Marlfields Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CW12 4, the school’s postcode sector
Congleton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CW12 4 sell for about the same as Congleton’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
10 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Congleton, CW12 4BT
Marlfields Primary School: common questions
Is Marlfields Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 5% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D), with 39% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in July 2026.
How hard is it to get into Marlfields Primary School?
For September 2026, 19 families put Marlfields Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 21 places were offered in all.
What is Marlfields Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (July 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Marlfields Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, CW12 4, sold for a median £282,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (760 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Congleton’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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