Overall Oxbridge
#471
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Offer rate50.0%
+27.6 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
A self-contained market town of around 30,000 on the River Dane, Congleton sits in the southern reaches of Cheshire East, roughly midway between Stoke-on-Trent and Greater Manchester.
Mossley is among the most school-competitive pockets for primary catchments, while families seeking schools in Congleton's own town-centre parishes find similarly strong local competition for places. Around eleven schools serve the town. West Heath and Havannah extend the residential character south and east, with Congleton station carrying services to Manchester Piccadilly in around fifty minutes and south to Crewe in under twenty.
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Area Performance
Across 9 primary schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 6.47/10, -0.88 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Congleton schools
Congleton vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Congleton schools
top 68% of 14,978
top 68% of 14,978
Overall Oxbridge
1 ranked schools · +443 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
2
Offers
1
Cambridge
1 ranked schools · +409 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
2
Offers
1
2026
Congleton
2026
Congleton
2026
Congleton
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