Graded inspection · Jan 2023 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry679 applications · 198 places offered · 270 named it first
- 2026 3.4; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2025 3.5; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2024 3.4; Tameside median median 2.3
- 2023 2.9; Tameside median median 2.2
- 2022 2.9; Tameside median median 2.1
- 2021 2.9; Tameside median median 2.4
- 2020 2.4; Tameside median median 2.6
- 2019 3.3; 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 | 198 | 679 | 3.4 | 270 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2025 | 201 | 702 | 3.5 | 308 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2024 | 200 | 672 | 3.4 | 265 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2023 | 210 | 606 | 2.9 | 237 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2022 | 214 | 613 | 2.9 | 289 | 1.35 |
| Sep 2021 | 214 | 628 | 2.9 | 310 | 1.45 |
| Sep 2020 | 210 | 499 | 2.4 | 179 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2019 | 149 | 487 | 3.3 | 199 | 1.34 |
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.) | 210 | 51.1 | 54% | 75% | – |
| 2024/25 | 208 | 51.6 | 51% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 149 | 52.3 | 56% | 81% | +0.73 |
| 2022/23 | 152 | 49.7 | 49% | 74% | +0.33 |
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
- Laurus RyecroftThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20233.4applications per place 51.1Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · OldhamGood20241.5applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · TamesideRemains Good20222.7applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · TamesideGood20222.0applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · TamesideGood20232.0applications per place 48.4Attainment 8
- 3.2 km · Manchester20262.5applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · OldhamGood20241.8applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Oldham20262.0applications per place 35.2Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · TamesideGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 37.7Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 145894 · 357/4002
- Trust
- The Laurus Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,350 pupils · 1,153 on roll
- Free school meals
- 38.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 3 September 2018
- Address
- Lumb Lane, Droylsden, Manchester, M43 7LJ
- Local authority
- Tameside
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources