Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bury
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 entry479 applications · 226 places offered · 276 named it first
- 2026 2.1; Bury median median 2.2
- 2025 1.9; Bury median median 2.0
- 2024 1.7; Bury median median 1.7
- 2023 1.9; Bury median median 1.8
- 2022 1.8; Bury median median 1.7
- 2021 2.1; Bury median median 1.6
- 2020 2.1; Bury median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 1.9; Bury median median 1.2; as the previous school
- 2018 2.4; Bury median median 1.0; as the previous school
- 2017 2.3; Bury median median 1.1; as the previous school
- 2016 2.4; Bury median median 1.1; as the previous school
- 2015 2.3; Bury median median 1.3; as the previous school
- 2014 2.2; Bury median median 1.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Bury median
Dashed bars: as Woodhey High School (URN 105361), 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 | 226 | 479 | 2.1 | 276 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2025 | 224 | 435 | 1.9 | 262 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2024 | 220 | 373 | 1.7 | 212 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 232 | 437 | 1.9 | 245 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2022 | 220 | 398 | 1.8 | 222 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2021 | 220 | 455 | 2.1 | 253 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2020 * | 229 | 486 | 2.1 | 251 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2019 * | 229 | 433 | 1.9 | 233 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2018 * | 201 | 484 | 2.4 | 244 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2017 * | 210 | 481 | 2.3 | 250 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2016 * | 210 | 513 | 2.4 | 285 | 1.36 |
| Sep 2015 * | 199 | 448 | 2.3 | 236 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2014 * | 215 | 473 | 2.2 | 277 | 1.29 |
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.) | 220 | 49.8 | 54% | 77% | – |
| 2024/25 | 216 | 47.3 | 47% | 74% | – |
| 2023/24 | 214 | 49.2 | 52% | 74% | +0.05 |
| 2022/23 | 211 | 49.4 | 56% | 76% | +0.01 |
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
- Woodhey High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.1applications per place 49.8Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · BuryRequires improvement20242.7applications per place 38.9Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Bury20262.7applications per place 47.4Attainment 8
- 5.3 km · BuryGood20232.1applications per place 39.2Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · Bury20263.5applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · BoltonGood20242.0applications per place 44.0Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · BuryGood20231.8applications per place 35.6Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · BuryRemains Good2023
- 6.1 km · BoltonGraded · no overall grade20251.2applications per place 36.9Attainment 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
- 148097 · 351/4026
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,050 pupils · 1,111 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 October 2020
- Replaced
- Woodhey High School (URN 105361)
- Address
- Bolton Road West, Ramsbottom, Bury, BL0 9QZ
- Local authority
- Bury
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources