Stockport School

Community school·Secondary school Stockport·SK2 6BW
Composite score
57.1
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#1,595
National rank
#193
In North West
#9
In Stockport
Top 50%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
45.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
50%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
66%
% EBacc grade 5+
24%
EBacc average points score
4.14

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
76%
312 first choices, 255 places
First choices per place
1.22
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
798
any preference, for 255 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.3220221.1520231.2220241.1820251.222026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Stockport School yet. Stockport does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,349
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
6.4%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.1%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
31.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,647
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
225 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
7%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Stockport School is a secondary school serving Stockport, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 1,349 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Stockport School 'Good'. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 45.7 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 1.7 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

50% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 66% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Stockport School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 312 first choices for 255 places. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.0%. There are about 16.2 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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