Graded inspection · May 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 | 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 entry1,460 applications · 262 places offered · 415 named it first
- 2026 5.6; Stockport median median 2.7
- 2025 5.3; Stockport median median 2.8
- 2024 5.0; Stockport median median 2.9
- 2023 4.4; Stockport median median 2.4
- 2022 4.1; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2021 4.3; Stockport median median 1.9
- 2020 4.1; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2019 3.7; Stockport median median 1.9
- 2018 4.2; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2017 4.0; Stockport median median 2.0
- 2016 4.1; Stockport median median 2.3
- 2015 3.5; Stockport median median 2.2
- 2014 3.0; 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 | 262 | 1,460 | 5.6 | 415 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2025 | 274 | 1,449 | 5.3 | 448 | 1.64 |
| Sep 2024 | 287 | 1,428 | 5.0 | 439 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2023 | 280 | 1,235 | 4.4 | 441 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2022 | 263 | 1,087 | 4.1 | 379 | 1.44 |
| Sep 2021 | 261 | 1,128 | 4.3 | 407 | 1.56 |
| Sep 2020 | 265 | 1,088 | 4.1 | 372 | 1.40 |
| Sep 2019 | 265 | 985 | 3.7 | 405 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2018 | 261 | 1,089 | 4.2 | 481 | 1.84 |
| Sep 2017 | 264 | 1,067 | 4.0 | 483 | 1.83 |
| Sep 2016 | 254 | 1,044 | 4.1 | 481 | 1.89 |
| Sep 2015 | 258 | 906 | 3.5 | 425 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2014 | 267 | 804 | 3.0 | 393 | 1.47 |
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.) | 274 | 59.3 | 76% | 89% | – |
| 2024/25 | 268 | 60.7 | 75% | 88% | – |
| 2023/24 | 264 | 59.7 | 72% | 85% | +0.87 |
| 2022/23 | 268 | 58.5 | 70% | 84% | +0.78 |
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
- Cheadle Hulme High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20255.6applications per place 59.3Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · Stockport20264.3applications per place 52.4Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · StockportOutstanding20237.1applications per place 58.2Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · StockportGood20233.2applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · Stockport20264.0applications per place 52.7Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · Stockport20261.5applications per place 48.4Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · StockportGraded · no overall grade20253.0applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · StockportStandards maintained20253.1applications per place 45.9Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · ManchesterStandards maintained20252.9applications per place 48.7Attainment 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
- 137843 · 356/4039
- Trust
- The Laurus Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,650 pupils · 1,690 on roll
- Free school meals
- 10.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2012
- Replaced
- Cheadle Hulme High School (URN 106140)
- Address
- Woods Lane, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, SK8 7JY
- Local authority
- Stockport
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources