Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C56
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Crewe, CW4 7DX
- Distance
- 5.3km away
Middlewich High School
King Edward Street, Middlewich, CW10 9BU
Local ranking16th of 22 secondary schools in Cheshire East
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
700
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 13 December 2022. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Middlewich High School (URN 111410) since 1 September 2021. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 41.3 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 28.6% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 54.3% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 140
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 85.0%
- Continued in education
- 76.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 6.0%
- Not sustained
- 7.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 677
- Boys
- 312 (47%)
- Girls
- 353 (53%)
- Capacity
- 700 (95% full)
- SEND
- 19.6%
- FSM Eligible
- 25.3%
- EAL
- 3.1%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 7.7%
- SEN Support
- 12.0%
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,507/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 25.3% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 93.5%
- White Other: 2.7%
- Black African: 1.0%
- Mixed Other: 0.7%
- Other: 0.7%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 0.3%
- Mixed White & Asian: 0.3%
- White Irish: 0.1%
93.5%
White British
2.7%
White Other
1.0%
Black African
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Administrative
- URN
- 148693
- UKPRN
- 10088895
- Establishment No.
- 4127
- Trust
- THE SIR JOHN BRUNNER FOUNDATION
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