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Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary School

  • Primary
  • Academy converter
  • Ages 3 to 11
  • Church of England

URN 150917 · Cheshire West and Chester · CHESTER DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST

In Cheshire West and Chester

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest full inspection

8 October 2024
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Early years provision
Good
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Full inspection (section 5)

From September 2024 until report cards began, full inspections gave key judgements but no overall grade.

Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.

Teachers

Against Cheshire West and Chester and England, primary schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

21.6

Cheshire West and Chester
19.9
England
21.2

0.4 higher than England.

Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.

Teacher sickness absence

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Cheshire West and Chester
4.8 days
England
5.0 days

Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.

Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.

Finance

Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.

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About the school

Pupils on roll
447
Capacity
444
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Primary
Age range
3 to 11
Sixth form
Does not have a sixth form
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England
Trust
CHESTER DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST
Opened
1 April 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 6 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Old Wrexham Road, Handbridge, Chester, Cheshire, CH4 7HS

Website: www.osm.cheshire.sch.uk

Telephone: 01244267525

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Sources and corrections

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Overleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary School, URN 150917. https://joshuamangas.com/intel/school/150917/. Data release 20 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.