St. Chad's Church of England Primary School
General Information
- Address: Gladstone Street, Winsford, CW7 4AT – View on map
- Phone: 01606663683
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Fiona Davis
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 23 families put it first for 24 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 50
- % eligible for free school meals: 28.6%
- Pupil mix: 2 in 10 (similar to the Cheshire West and Chester average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15.2% a year (Cheshire West and Chester 11.6%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 43% moved to another school, 57% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Cheshire West and Chester: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 1 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Cheshire West and Chester, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 61% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Cheshire West and Chester average (62%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 65% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 65%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 74% · Writing 83% · Maths 78% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 61%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 23 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 62nd of 115 junior and primary schools in the area
- =62Chester Blue Coat Church of England Primary School61%
- =62St Bernard's Roman Catholic Primary & Nursery School61%
- =62St. Chad's Church of England Primary School61%
- =62Westminster Community Primary School61%
- =67Byley Primary School and Nursery60%
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70th of 92 primary schools in Cheshire West and Chester for Ofsted rating
- #68St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #69St Winefride's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #70St. Chad's Church of England Primary SchoolGood
- #71Sutton Green Primary SchoolGood
- #72Tarporley CofE Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,111 (2024-25)
24th of 119 primary schools in Cheshire West and Chester for spending per pupil
- #22Byley Primary School and Nursery£8,291
- #23St Clare's Catholic Primary School£8,203
- #24St. Chad's Church of England Primary School£8,111
- #25St Bernard's Roman Catholic Primary & Nursery School£8,045
- #26Neston Primary School£7,934
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