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Stockport School
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–16 · Community school
Mile End Lane, Stockport SK2 6BW · stockportschool.net · 0161 483 3622
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2019
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 45.7
- average Attainment 8 score. Stockport 47.1, England 46
- Demand for places
- 1.2
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 1,341
- 99% of 1,350 places
- Local authority
- Stockport
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 31.8%
- First language not English
- 6.9%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, 312 families put the school first and 255 places were offered; 76% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 255 | 312 | 1.2▲ | 76% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 268 | 317 | 1.2▲ | 78% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 275 | 336 | 1.2▲ | 77% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 269 | 309 | 1.1▲ | 81% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 263 | 346 | 1.3▲ | 72% |
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 45.7, and 50.2% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Stockport it was 47.1, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ●45.7 | 46.0 | ||
| ▲50.2% | 45.4% | ||
| ●66.2% | 64.8% | ||
| ▲49.0% | 40.5% | ||
| ●4.14 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 0.8 | −0.4 |
| Sixth form college | 38.5 | +4.4 |
| Further education | 45.7 | +3 |
| Apprenticeship | 6.1 | −0.2 |
| Employment | 1.6 | −3.5 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 4.5 | −3.7 |
| Activity not captured | 2.8 | +0.4 |
Ofsted
Stockport School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 10 December 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in May 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 7 May 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Dec 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2018Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Nov 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Mar 2012Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
84% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (160 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 84%
- Replies
- 160
- 12% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 39% who had a child bullied
based on 53 parents (33%) with SEND