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Secondary school in Crewe, Cheshire East

Crewe Engineering and Design UTC

West Street, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 2PZ

Sixth form
School website 01270218150

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 19 November 2024.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

32.4 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

19% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

45% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

0% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-1.00confidence interval -1.32 to -0.68

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as supp.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D
Average points per entry
20

England average 32.3

A level students
11

Pupils

Pupils on roll
299
Places
400
How full
75% full — 299 of 400 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
91 / 208
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
32%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
35%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
14%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
16%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
85%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
67%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
25%
No sustained destination
10%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
84

After sixth form

Went to university
18%

England 50%

In education, work or training
77%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
21%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
39

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

0% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
24%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
41

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Cheshire East 039A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
22%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
32%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
20%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
37%

England 17%

Households with no car
50%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
39%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
University technical college
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 14–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE LEARNING PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: William Chitty
Local authority
Cheshire East
Ward
Crewe Central
Constituency
Crewe and Nantwich
URN
142890

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Cheshire Studio SchoolStudio schools Good 2023 24 0 mi
Sir William Stanier SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 28.4 0.6 mi
Ruskin Community High SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 37.9 0.8 mi
The Oaks AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 35.4 0.9 mi
St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 47.7 1.2 mi
Shavington AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 47.8 2.4 mi
Sandbach SchoolFree schools No grade 48.2 4.2 mi
Sandbach High School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 55.6 4.2 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Portchester Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 41.8
West Lakes AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 40.8
The Ilfracombe Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 47.9
The Sydney Russell SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.2
Haileybury TurnfordAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.3
Reading Girls' SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2021 51.8
Peacehaven Community SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 40.1
St Ignatius CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 54.8

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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