Graded inspection · Oct 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bolton
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 | |||
| Sixth form provision | 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 entry769 applications · 293 places offered · 294 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2025 2.6; Bolton median median 2.2
- 2024 2.6; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2023 3.3; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2022 3.0; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2021 2.9; Bolton median median 2.2
- 2020 3.1; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2019 3.0; Bolton median median 2.3
- 2018 2.8; Bolton median median 2.1
- 2017 2.7; Bolton median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2016 2.9; Bolton median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 2.4; Bolton median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.5; Bolton median median 2.2; as the previous school
- This school
- Bolton median
Dashed bars: as Canon Slade CofE School (URN 105267), the previous school.
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 | 293 | 769 | 2.6 | 294 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 297 | 758 | 2.6 | 320 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2024 | 294 | 761 | 2.6 | 291 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2023 | 295 | 960 | 3.3 | 375 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2022 | 297 | 884 | 3.0 | 361 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2021 | 295 | 848 | 2.9 | 372 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2020 | 297 | 907 | 3.1 | 353 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2019 | 298 | 886 | 3.0 | 382 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2018 | 296 | 837 | 2.8 | 375 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2017 * | 270 | 718 | 2.7 | 296 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2016 * | 270 | 792 | 2.9 | 393 | 1.46 |
| Sep 2015 * | 260 | 633 | 2.4 | 293 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2014 * | 256 | 630 | 2.5 | 289 | 1.13 |
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.) | 289 | 54.0 | 63% | 82% | – |
| 2024/25 | 291 | 53.9 | 57% | 84% | – |
| 2023/24 | 300 | 54.6 | 65% | 84% | +0.29 |
| 2022/23 | 296 | 54.8 | 64% | 85% | +0.14 |
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
- Canon Slade SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 54.0Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · BoltonImproved significantly20253.5applications per place 56.5Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · BoltonGood20242.0applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 36.9Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · BoltonRemains Outstanding20233.0applications per place 57.0Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 43.0Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · Bolton20261.5applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20242.0applications per place 41.4Attainment 8
- 4.5 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 56.5Attainment 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
- 144044 · 350/5401
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,800 pupils · 1,724 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 December 2017
- Replaced
- Canon Slade CofE School (URN 105267)
- Address
- Bradshaw Brow, Bradshaw, Bolton, BL2 3BP
- Local authority
- Bolton
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources