Graded inspection · Jun 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Tameside
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 |
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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 entry265 applications · 109 places offered · 74 named it first
- 2026 2.4; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2025 2.4; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2024 1.9; Tameside median median 2.3
- 2023 1.7; Tameside median median 2.2
- 2022 1.5; Tameside median median 2.1
- 2021 1.6; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2020 1.5; Tameside median median 2.6
- 2019 1.7; Tameside median median 2.6
- 2018 2.3; Tameside median median 2.5
- 2017 2.2; Tameside median median 2.2
- 2016 2.4; Tameside median median 2.6
- 2015 2.3; Tameside median median 2.6
- 2014 2.9; Tameside median median 2.6
- This school
- Tameside 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 | 109 | 265 | 2.4 | 74 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2025 | 98 | 235 | 2.4 | 66 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2024 | 112 | 209 | 1.9 | 71 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2023 | 125 | 212 | 1.7 | 75 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2022 | 114 | 170 | 1.5 | 63 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2021 | 129 | 202 | 1.6 | 76 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2020 | 110 | 161 | 1.5 | 67 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2019 | 160 | 266 | 1.7 | 95 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2018 | 134 | 303 | 2.3 | 96 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2017 | 150 | 322 | 2.2 | 104 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2016 | 121 | 295 | 2.4 | 92 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2015 | 137 | 318 | 2.3 | 86 | 0.63 |
| Sep 2014 | 108 | 308 | 2.9 | 75 | 0.69 |
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.) | 117 | 38.0 | 27% | 43% | – |
| 2024/25 | 105 | 35.8 | 13% | 34% | – |
| 2023/24 | 120 | 32.7 | 13% | 33% | −0.90 |
| 2022/23 | 110 | 36.7 | 21% | 45% | −0.70 |
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
- Dixons Pennine AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.4applications per place 38.0Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Tameside20262.6applications per place 43.2Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · Tameside20262.0applications per place 35.1Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · TamesideGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · TamesideGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · TamesideRemains Outstanding20233.4applications per place 56.0Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · TamesideGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · TamesideGood20232.6applications per place 47.0Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · TamesideRequires improvement20232.0applications per place 39.8Attainment 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
- 139294 · 357/4011
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 790 pupils · 592 on roll
- Free school meals
- 43.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 February 2013
- Replaced
- Copley High School (URN 106259)
- Address
- Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge, SK15 3RR
- Local authority
- Tameside
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources