Graded inspection · Jun 2022 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
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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 entry1,096 applications · 197 places offered · 265 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 5.6; Trafford median median 3.1
- 2025 5.6; Trafford median median 2.7
- 2024 5.8; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2023 5.5; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2022 5.5; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2021 10.2; Trafford median median 3.4
- 2020 5.8; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2019 5.9; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2018 6.1; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2017 5.1; Trafford median median 2.9
- 2016 5.4; Trafford median median 2.4
- 2015 5.5; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2014 6.2; Trafford median median 2.5
- This school
- Trafford median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates
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 | 197 | 1,096 | 5.6 | 265 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2025 | 193 | 1,087 | 5.6 | 213 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2024 | 191 | 1,099 | 5.8 | 250 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2023 | 192 | 1,061 | 5.5 | 251 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2022 | 189 | 1,048 | 5.5 | 256 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2021 | 192 | 1,953 | 10.2 | 463 | 2.41 |
| Sep 2020 | 199 | 1,153 | 5.8 | 282 | 1.42 |
| Sep 2019 | 198 | 1,160 | 5.9 | 310 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2018 | 198 | 1,205 | 6.1 | 305 | 1.54 |
| Sep 2017 | 192 | 976 | 5.1 | 210 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2016 | 189 | 1,019 | 5.4 | 264 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2015 | 194 | 1,069 | 5.5 | 300 | 1.55 |
| Sep 2014 | 183 | 1,137 | 6.2 | 326 | 1.78 |
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.) | 192 | 75.5 | 100% | 100% | – |
| 2024/25 | 192 | 76.1 | 97% | 100% | – |
| 2023/24 | 189 | 75.5 | 98% | 100% | +0.80 |
| 2022/23 | 188 | 74.2 | 95% | 99% | +0.67 |
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
- Sale Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20225.6applications per place 75.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.8 km · TraffordStandards maintained20244.6applications per place
- 1.6 km · TraffordRemains Good20243.9applications per place 52.6Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · ManchesterGraded · no overall grade20241.8applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · TraffordRemains Good20224.8applications per place 55.7Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · TraffordRemains Good · improving20247.3applications per place 75.5Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.8 km · TraffordRequires improvement20242.5applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · TraffordGraded · no overall grade20253.5applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Trafford20265.7applications per place 47.0Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136498 · 358/4029
- Trust
- Sale Grammar School
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,341 pupils · 1,352 on roll
- Free school meals
- 2.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 March 2011
- Replaced
- Sale Grammar School (URN 106371)
- Address
- Marsland Road, Sale, M33 3NH
- Local authority
- Trafford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources