Newchurch Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Warrington·WA3 4DX
Composite score
37.6
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#11,713
National rank
#1748
In North West
#58
In Warrington
Top 79%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
47%
% achieving higher RWM
6%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
25 first choices, 26 places
First choices per place
0.96
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
61
any preference, for 26 places
Applications from another council area
12%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8320221.0020230.9020240.9620250.962026

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

Every child who put Newchurch Community 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
201
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.9%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
7.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,506
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Newchurch Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Warrington, Newchurch Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 201 pupils aged 4 to 11. 47% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 20.0 percentage points compared with 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 104 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 6% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Newchurch Community Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 26 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 19.7 pupils per teacher. Newchurch Community Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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