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Best secondary schools in Cheshire East

21 of 24 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Cheshire East schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 16 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 The Fallibroome Academy Macclesfield 0.56 Good declining oversubscribed 1.16 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College Sandbach 0.48 Good about even 1.0 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Poynton High School Stockport 0.29 Good about even 1.02 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Sandbach School Sandbach 0.28 Not judged improving about even 1.07 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
5 St Thomas More Catholic High School Crewe 0.26 Not judged oversubscribed 1.28 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
6 Alsager School Stoke-on-Trent hidden gem 0.21 Good declining about even 0.97 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
7 Wilmslow High School Wilmslow 0.16 Good about even 1.05 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 Tytherington School Macclesfield 0.09 Good about even 1.05 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 Shavington Academy Shavington 0.04 Good oversubscribed 1.15 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 All Hallows Catholic College Macclesfield 0.0 Not judged undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
11 Knutsford Academy Knutsford -0.03 Good about even 1.08 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
12 Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School Crewe hidden gem -0.04 Good about even 0.93 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Brine Leas School Nantwich hidden gem -0.07 Good about even 0.96 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
14 Eaton Bank Academy Congleton -0.13 Not judged improving about even 0.99 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
15 Middlewich High School Middlewich -0.14 Good oversubscribed 1.19 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
16 Ruskin Community High School Crewe hidden gem -0.22 Good about even 0.93 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
17 Congleton High School Congleton hidden gem -0.47 Good about even 0.99 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
18 The Oaks Academy Crewe hidden gem -0.5 Good about even 0.9 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
19 Sir William Stanier School Crewe -0.9 Not judged undersubscribed 0.77 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
20 Crewe Engineering and Design UTC Crewe -1.0 Not judged — approximate
21 Cheshire Studio School Crewe -1.62 Good — approximate

Also in Cheshire East

3 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Cheshire East, not a fairer one.

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