Schools in Knutsford
Knutsford is a prosperous market town in Cheshire East with 11 schools - 8 primaries and Knutsford Academy as the single secondary serving the town. Cheshire East Council co-ordinates admissions for maintained schools, applying sibling priority then catchment-area residence, then nearest-school distance for community primaries. Several villages on the Knutsford periphery fall within the admissions areas of neighbouring Macclesfield and Wilmslow schools.
Knutsford Academy is a large converter academy admitting around 240 pupils per year. Its oversubscription criteria prioritise looked-after children and siblings, then proximity by straight-line distance - with competition typically most acute for addresses in the town centre and established residential streets. Cheshire East secondary applications open in September and close in late October.
School demand in Knutsford
Across the 9 schools in Knutsford with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 93%. 3 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.
3 schools in Knutsford have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.
7 of the schools in Knutsford are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Cheshire East, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.
4 of the schools in Knutsford have a current Ofsted rating, of which 4 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.
Primary schools in Knutsford: 2 oversubscribed (8)
High Legh Primary School
Primary · Community school
Knutsford · WA16 6NW
Mobberley CofE Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school
Knutsford · WA16 7RA
St Vincent De Paul Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school
Knutsford · WA16 8AL
Peover Superior Endowed Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led
Knutsford · WA16 8TU
Egerton Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Knutsford · WA16 0EE
Bexton Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Knutsford · WA16 9DB
Manor Park Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Academy converter
Knutsford · WA16 8DB
Lower Peover CofE Primary School
Primary · Academy converter
Knutsford · WA16 9PZ
Secondary Schools in Knutsford (1)
Other Schools in Knutsford (2)
Catchment area boundaries for schools in Knutsford are set by Cheshire East and updated each year. The "last distance offered", how far the furthest successful applicant lived, changes annually based on the number of applications received.