Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Stockport
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 |
Inspection history
- 21 January 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 22 November 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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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 entry596 applications · 199 places offered · 190 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.0; Stockport median median 2.7
- 2025 3.3; Stockport median median 2.8
- 2024 3.4; Stockport median median 2.9
- 2023 2.5; Stockport median median 2.4
- 2022 2.0; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2021 1.8; Stockport median median 1.9
- 2020 2.0; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2019 1.7; Stockport median median 1.9
- 2018 1.7; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2017 1.6; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2016 1.3; Stockport median median 2.3
- 2015 1.2; Stockport median median 2.2
- 2014 1.0; Stockport median median 2.1
- This school
- Stockport 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 | 199 | 596 | 3.0 | 190 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 | 205 | 666 | 3.3 | 219 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2024 | 215 | 736 | 3.4 | 213 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2023 | 206 | 516 | 2.5 | 211 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2022 | 206 | 408 | 2.0 | 168 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2021 | 209 | 382 | 1.8 | 175 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2020 | 209 | 411 | 2.0 | 178 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2019 | 209 | 350 | 1.7 | 172 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2018 | 197 | 328 | 1.7 | 151 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2017 | 194 | 310 | 1.6 | 150 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2016 | 213 | 274 | 1.3 | 155 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2015 | 173 | 208 | 1.2 | 119 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2014 | 172 | 172 | 1.0 | 111 | 0.65 |
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.) | 196 | 52.5 | 57% | 71% | – |
| 2024/25 | 185 | 47.0 | 47% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 193 | 46.6 | 39% | 63% | +0.24 |
| 2022/23 | 176 | 41.4 | 36% | 55% | −0.37 |
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
- Stockport AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · StockportRequires improvement20192.1applications per place 55.8Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · StockportOutstanding20237.1applications per place 58.2Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · StockportGood20232.2applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · ManchesterStandards maintained20252.9applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · ManchesterRemains Good20243.5applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · StockportStandards maintained20253.1applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Stockport20261.5applications per place 48.4Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · ManchesterRemains Outstanding20242.2applications per place 51.9Attainment 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
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135262 · 356/6905
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Capacity
- 1,020 pupils · 1,023 on roll
- Free school meals
- 41.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2007
- Replaced
- Avondale High School (URN 106131)
- Address
- Heathbank Road, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, SK3 0UP
- Local authority
- Stockport
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources