Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Chester · CH4 7HS
Data updated
SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection
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Inspected 8 October 2024
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447 pupils · 101% of 444 capacity (over capacity) (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils (January 2026)
- Nursery
- Yes
- URN
- 150917
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 28 families named it first for 36 Reception places, 0.78 first choices per place. Its last Reception place offered on distance for 2025 entry went to 1.18 miles; distance decided places in 2 of the 5 years of Reception rounds we hold, 2022 to 2026. At its inspection on 8 October 2024 Ofsted awarded no overall grade; the lowest of the four areas it judged was Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 4.5% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.78 first-choice applications per place36 places offered · 28 first-choice applications · usually has places
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.
Last child offered a place under the distance criterion (2025 entry, the most recent year with a distance-only cutoff) lived within 1.18 miles
measured in a straight line.
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Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Chester school admissions · Cheshire West and Chester school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 64% (Cheshire West and Chester 83%, England 60%) · Any other White background 14% (Cheshire West and Chester 4%, England 7%) · Asian Indian 4% (Cheshire West and Chester 2%, England 4%) · Mixed White and Asian 4% (Cheshire West and Chester 1%, England 2%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Cheshire West and Chester 1%, England 2%) · Black African 2% (Cheshire West and Chester 2%, England 5%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 1%, England 1%) · Asian Pakistani 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 0%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 2%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 1%, England 2%) · Any other Black background 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 0%, England 1%) · Not recorded 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 0%, England 1%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Cheshire West and Chester 1%, England 3%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £50,510; 20% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 6/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 8/10less deprived than most of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 49% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 10.3% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 47.4% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 9.1% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 50.8% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 49.1% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 5% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 45.9% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 4.4% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 24.8% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 9.4% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 27.6% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01018342 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £310,000286 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £246,000–£469,500the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Inside the Reception cutoff distance (1.90 km, 2025 entry): 1,040 sales, median £280,000. The homes that would have got a child in that year, at the straight-line distance the school last filled to.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 1an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 7an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 18an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 3an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted