Graded inspection · Sep 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 entry441 applications · 160 places offered · 258 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.8; Trafford median median 3.1
- 2025 2.8; Trafford median median 2.7
- 2024 2.5; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2023 2.5; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2022 2.2; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2021 3.4; Trafford median median 3.4
- 2020 2.3; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2019 2.3; Trafford median median 2.8
- 2018 2.5; Trafford median median 2.6
- 2017 2.4; Trafford median median 2.9
- 2016 2.2; Trafford median median 2.4
- 2015 2.3; Trafford median median 2.5
- 2014 2.3; 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 | 160 | 441 | 2.8 | 258 | 1.61 |
| Sep 2025 | 159 | 444 | 2.8 | 263 | 1.65 |
| Sep 2024 | 165 | 415 | 2.5 | 223 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2023 | 160 | 397 | 2.5 | 239 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2022 | 150 | 322 | 2.2 | 180 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2021 | 162 | 547 | 3.4 | 270 | 1.67 |
| Sep 2020 | 158 | 365 | 2.3 | 186 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2019 | 161 | 363 | 2.3 | 204 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2018 | 160 | 398 | 2.5 | 219 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2017 | 161 | 389 | 2.4 | 238 | 1.48 |
| Sep 2016 | 162 | 358 | 2.2 | 202 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2015 | 156 | 354 | 2.3 | 211 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2014 | 151 | 349 | 2.3 | 214 | 1.42 |
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.) | 155 | 75.2 | 96% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 157 | 73.7 | 92% | 98% | – |
| 2023/24 | 157 | 76.3 | 98% | 100% | +1.06 |
| 2022/23 | 158 | 74.4 | 96% | 100% | +0.91 |
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
- Loreto Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20222.8applications per place 75.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 0.1 km · TraffordStandards maintained20246.0applications per place 52.9Attainment 8
- 0.8 km · TraffordOutstanding20222.1applications per place 77.8Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.1 km · TraffordGraded · no overall grade20253.5applications per place 47.1Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · TraffordOutstanding20222.3applications per place 79.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.6 km · TraffordRemains Good20224.8applications per place 55.7Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Trafford20265.7applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Trafford20253.1applications per place 72.3Attainment 8 Selective
- 3.7 km · TraffordRemains Good20243.9applications per place 52.6Attainment 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
- 138464 · 358/5901
- Trust
- Loreto Grammar School
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 1,034 pupils · 1,075 on roll
- Free school meals
- 5.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 August 2012
- Replaced
- Loreto Grammar School (URN 106378)
- Address
- Dunham Road, Altrincham, WA14 4AH
- Local authority
- Trafford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources