United Kingdom / Regions / Cheshire East
Cheshire East
North West, England · population ~387k · 155 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 128 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Cheshire East
155 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (128 of 155 here), 95.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 155 schools.
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Wilmslow High School | Secondary | 2,212 | Not graded | 08/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Fallibroome Academy | Secondary | 1,551 | Good | 30/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Alsager School | Secondary | 1,519 | Good | 17/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Poynton High School | Secondary | 1,500 | Good· | 29/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandbach School | Secondary | 1,499 | Good· | 18/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Tytherington School | Secondary | 1,416 | Good· | 27/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Brine Leas School | Secondary | 1,411 | Good· | 19/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,358 | Good | 12/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Knutsford Academy | Secondary | 1,325 | Good· | 04/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School | Secondary | 1,322 | Good | 29/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Malbank School and Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,271 | Good | 14/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
All Hallows Catholic College | Secondary | 1,251 | Not graded | 19/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Congleton High School | Secondary | 1,211 | Good· | 03/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Eaton Bank Academy | Secondary | 1,077 | Not graded | 25/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Shavington Academy | Secondary | 908 | Good· | 18/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ruskin Community High School | Secondary | 715 | Good· | 19/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sir William Stanier School | Secondary | 688 | Not graded | 26/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Middlewich High School | Secondary | 677 | Good | 13/12/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Oaks Academy | Secondary | 648 | Good | 16/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas More Catholic High School | Secondary | 647 | Good· | 05/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.