Sir William Stanier School
Secondary · Crewe · CW1 4EB
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 28 April 2026 · report published 21 June 2026
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633 pupils · 60% of 1,050 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 47.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 21.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 12.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 7.8% of pupils
- URN
- 139953
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
0.77 first-choice applications per place124 places offered · 95 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
127 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
72% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 15% moved to another state school · 13% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 28 April 2026: Needs attention
- 26 November 2024: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 3
- 19 October 2023: Leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action in order for the school to become a good school
- 1 March 2022: Requires improvement
- 16 October 2019: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 27 February 2018: Requires improvement
- 30 June 2016: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 10 February 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.