Mablins Lane Community Primary School

Community school·Primary school Crewe, Cheshire East·CW1 3YR
Composite score
36.3
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#12,093
National rank
#1801
In North West
#100
In Cheshire East
Top 82%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
54%
% achieving higher RWM
1%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
62 first choices, 64 places
First choices per place
0.97
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
121
any preference, for 64 places
Last place offered lived
9.37 mi
straight line, 2025 intake · 15086 m
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0120220.9820230.9020240.9820250.972026

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

The cut-off distance is how far the last child offered a place lived, not a catchment boundary: it moves every year with the number of applicants. Published by the council in its 2025 allocation figures, and checked against that document before we show it. In 2026 the school was not oversubscribed, so no distance limit applied.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
603
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
11.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
16.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,231
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Mablins Lane Community Primary School at a glance

Located in Crewe, Cheshire East, Mablins Lane Community Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 603 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 54% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 2.0 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 106 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 1% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Mablins Lane Community Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 62 families who put it first were offered a place. The council's own allocation figures show the last child offered a place for 2025 lived 9.37 miles away in a straight line — that distance is not a fixed catchment and moves each year. Overall pupil absence was 5.9%. There are about 21.5 pupils per teacher. Mablins Lane 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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