School profile
Church Lawton School
Cherry Tree Avenue, Church Lawton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 3EL
Overview
Church Lawton School is a special / send school (free schools special) in Stoke-on-Trent, North West, for pupils aged 4–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Free schools special
- Establishment group
- Free Schools
- Age range
- Ages 4–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 84
- Pupils on roll
- 86
- URN
- 141559
Admissions
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
- Academy trust or group
- LIBERTY ACADEMY TRUST LTD.
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 97 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 29% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 95 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 29% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 102 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 57% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 14% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 86% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 16 November 2022 · Published 29 March 2023
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Good
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
Location
- Address
- Cherry Tree Avenue, Church Lawton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST7 3EL
- Local authority
- Cheshire East
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