Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in TraffordSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry986 applications · 285 places offered · 209 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.5; Trafford median median 3.1
- 2025 2.7; Trafford median median 2.7
- 2024 3.0; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2023 3.6; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2022 3.0; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2021 3.2; Trafford median median 3.4
- 2020 3.2; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2019 3.1; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2018 3.1; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2017 3.0; Trafford median median 2.9
- 2016 2.9; Trafford median median 2.4
- 2015 3.1; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2014 3.2; Trafford median median 2.5
- This school
- Trafford median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 285 | 986 | 3.5 | 209 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2025 | 290 | 769 | 2.7 | 211 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2024 | 279 | 823 | 3.0 | 209 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2023 | 281 | 1,018 | 3.6 | 287 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2022 | 290 | 858 | 3.0 | 285 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2021 | 259 | 832 | 3.2 | 206 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2020 | 273 | 874 | 3.2 | 290 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2019 | 290 | 909 | 3.1 | 291 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 295 | 910 | 3.1 | 306 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2017 | 287 | 858 | 3.0 | 301 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2016 | 283 | 820 | 2.9 | 265 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2015 | 237 | 726 | 3.1 | 219 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2014 | 217 | 697 | 3.2 | 211 | 0.97 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 244 | 47.1 | 37% | 68% | – |
| 2024/25 | 261 | 48.9 | 42% | 66% | – |
| 2023/24 | 269 | 50.5 | 53% | 80% | +0.23 |
| 2022/23 | 281 | 47.1 | 46% | 68% | +0.20 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic CollegeThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.5applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · TraffordRemains Good20224.8applications per place 55.7Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · TraffordStandards maintained20246.0applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · TraffordOutstanding20222.8applications per place 75.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.2 km · Trafford20265.7applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · TraffordOutstanding20222.3applications per place 79.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.5 km · TraffordOutstanding20222.1applications per place 77.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.4 km · Trafford20253.1applications per place 72.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.4 km · ManchesterGraded · no overall grade20241.8applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 106376 · 358/5403
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,700 pupils · 1,638 on roll
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Address
- Urban Road, Altrincham, WA15 8HT
- Local authority
- Trafford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources