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Westminster Community Primary School

Academy converter in Ellesmere Port, CH65 2ED, taking ages 4 to 11, 151 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Sep 2024
0.33 mi Admitted from, 2025/26
108% Full, over capacity
61.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2025/26, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.33 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.33 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2025/26.

Westminster Community Primary School: 0.33 miles, 2025/26 Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School: 0.17 miles, 2025/26, published by Cheshire West and Chester

This is not a catchment area. 0.33 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Westminster Community Primary School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

One published year so far: 2025/26, from Cheshire West and Chester. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Cheshire West and Chester, published admission distances, 2025/26

Where Westminster Community Primary School and Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School admitted from 0.17 miles in 2025/26, published by Cheshire West and Chester. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 0.33 and 0.17 miles, and the ground those circles share holds no district centre, which is a fact about where the centres fall rather than about any one address. The map above shows both, and the postcode checker answers for both.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Cheshire West and Chester, 22 of 70 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (31.4%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Westminster Community Primary School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Cambridge Road Community Primary and Nursery School Both in reach Primary 0.17 mi 2025/26 0.4 mi
The Acorns Primary and Nursery School Both in reach Primary 1.46 mi 2025/26 0.7 mi
Whitby Heath Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.41 mi 2025/26 1.1 mi
Brookside Primary School Both in reach Primary 5.86 mi 2025/26 1.2 mi
The Oaks Community Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.65 mi 2025/26 1.3 mi
Sutton Green Primary School Both in reach Primary 1.79 mi 2025/26 1.7 mi

The distance as a picture

Westminster Community Primary School catchment area map: the 0.33 mile admission distance, 2025/26
Drawn to scale from the published figure. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 151 pupils in 140 places (108% full, over capacity)
TrustWEAVER TRUST LIMITED
Local authorityCheshire West and Chester

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 18 September 2024
Meeting the expected standard 61.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 61.0%
2023/24 53.0%
2022/23 39.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Westminster Community Primary School

Girls and boys46.4% girls, 53.6% boys
English as an additional language27.2% of pupils
Free school meals53.6% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

Getting to Westminster Community Primary School by bus

Best-served stop: Wilkinson Street, 0.1 mi away, with 1.9 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 07:09, last 18:59.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Wilkinson Street0.1 mi1.90.00.06A, 6
Wilkinson Street0.1 mi1.90.20.06, 6A
George Street0.2 mi1.90.20.06, 6A

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

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Checking the house as well as the school

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Common questions

What is the catchment area for Westminster Community Primary School?

Westminster Community Primary School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in 2025/26 lived 0.33 miles away, per Cheshire West and Chester.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Westminster Community Primary School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.33 miles was enough in 2025/26, and at 108% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Westminster Community Primary School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Cheshire West and Chester school's distance

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Admission distance published by Cheshire West and Chester. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.