Wimboldsley Community Primary School

Wimboldsley Community Primary School is a small school that is performing well overall, with strong standards in attendance, behaviour, inclusion and personal development. Pupils behave exceptionally well, attend regularly and benefit from highly effective support for their wellbeing and additional needs. The school has a calm, inclusive culture where pupils are kind and respectful, and safeguarding arrangements are met. Leaders, including the new leadership team, have taken rapid and effective action to improve writing, and the quality of pupils' writing in books is now stronger than published outcomes suggest. Most pupils achieve well, and those with special educational needs and/or disabilities make good progress from their starting points.

Strengths

• Pupils' behaviour is exemplary, with highly positive attitudes to learning from the early years onwards.
• Attendance is excellent, with absence rates well below national averages and persistent absence very low.
• Leaders provide highly effective support to improve attendance for pupils facing barriers.
• Inclusion is a strong feature; pupils' needs are identified quickly and support is well matched and precise.
• Pupils with SEND, including those with complex needs, achieve well and make rapid gains in language and communication.
• Personal development is well considered, with a strong PSHE curriculum that helps pupils flourish.
• Pupils have a well-developed understanding of fundamental British values and respect for diversity.
• Bullying is rare and leaders take effective action when it occurs.
• The early years curriculum is well taught, with purposeful interactions that support language development.
• Governors and trustees have an accurate view of the school and provide effective support and challenge.
• Staff are highly valued and supported, and they are proud to work at the school.
• Leaders make maximum use of expertise within the school and trust, and monitor impact carefully.

Areas for Improvement

• In writing, published achievement outcomes lag behind national averages, although recent action has improved quality in books.
• Opportunities to deepen pupils' knowledge across subjects are sometimes missed.
• Pupils do not have enough opportunities to apply their learning to deepen their knowledge.
• Sometimes identified gaps in pupils' learning are not addressed precisely.
• In the early years, some activities and resources limit children's learning and miss opportunities to deepen understanding.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Wimboldsley Community Primary School attended 96.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 4.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.0% of pupils at Wimboldsley Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Wimboldsley Community Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.7% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 5.4% of pupils at Wimboldsley Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Wimboldsley Community Primary School received £7,325 and spent £6,883 for each of its 132 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £139,000 (£1,050 per pupil).

Across all 9 schools of Concordia Multi Academy Trust, income was £8,084 and spending £7,842 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Middlewich · Cheshire West and Chester local authority: places and applications

Wimboldsley Community Primary School is part of Concordia Multi Academy Trust, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Willow Wood Community Nursery and Primary School Winsford
• Highfields Academy Nantwich
• Upton Westlea Primary School Chester
• Lache Primary School Chester
• Wolverham Primary and Nursery School Ellesmere Port
• William Stockton Community Primary School Ellesmere Port
• Parklands Community Primary and Nursery School Ellesmere Port
• Childer Thornton Primary School Ellesmere Port
• Town Lane Infant School Wirral

What is Wimboldsley Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wimboldsley Community Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in June 2026.

When was Wimboldsley Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wimboldsley Community Primary School was last inspected in June 2026.

How many pupils does Wimboldsley Community Primary School have?

Wimboldsley Community Primary School has 129 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wimboldsley Community Primary School cover?

Wimboldsley Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Wimboldsley Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 52% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wimboldsley Community Primary School?

Wimboldsley Community Primary School is at Nantwich Road, Wimboldsley, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0LN.