Newton Primary School

Community school·Primary school Cheshire West and Chester·CH2 2LA
Composite score
34.4
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National rank
#1864
In North West
#104
In Cheshire West and Chester
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Requires improvement
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
30 first choices, 34 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
76
any preference, for 34 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8520220.8020230.7920240.7520250.882026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Newton Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
391
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
17.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
5.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,235
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Newton Primary School at a glance

Located in Cheshire West and Chester, Newton Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 391 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 14.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Newton Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 30 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 3.6%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Newton Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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