Manchester Enterprise Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Wythenshawe, Manchester·M22 9RH
Composite score
46.9
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#2,809
National rank
#369
In North West
#24
In Manchester
Top 88%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
37.5
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
28%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
47%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
3.21

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 27/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Urgent improvement
Leadership and governance
Urgent improvement
Curriculum and teaching
Urgent improvement
Attendance and behaviour
Urgent improvement
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Needs attention
Safeguarding standards
Met

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
99 first choices, 195 places
First choices per place
0.51
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
226
any preference, for 195 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9020220.7820230.5220240.6020250.512026

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

Every child who put Manchester Enterprise Academy first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,186
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
64.3%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
16.7%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.7%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.3%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
34.7%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,199
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
79%
246 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
72%
Apprenticeship
3%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Manchester Enterprise Academy is a secondary school serving Wythenshawe, Manchester, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 1,186 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 37.5, below the national average of 46. That is down 0.6 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

28% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 47% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Manchester Enterprise Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 99 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 79% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 12.3%. There are about 15.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 64% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Manchester Enterprise Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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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