The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Harrytown Catholic High School

URN 106143 · Secondary · Voluntary aided school · Stockport

Harrytown, Stockport, SK6 3BU

Figures current as of 5 September 2026, the day we last checked a source behind this page.

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 144 families named Harrytown Catholic High School as their first preference, and the school made 165 offers.

That is 0.87 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 34% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 34% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

More families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.76 in 2021–2022 and 0.88 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 144 404 165 0.87
2024 144 447 163 0.88
2023 144 339 165 0.87
2022 113 292 147 0.77
2021 123 303 162 0.76
2020 138 311 162 0.85
2019 107 253 136 0.79
2018 135 288 157 0.86
2017 129 307 154 0.84
2016 131 329 138 0.95
2015 139 331 152 0.91
2014 147 338 161 0.91

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Source: Department for Education: school-level applications and offers, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 17 December 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Source: Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information, checked 4 September 2026. All sources.

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 40.60 - 53.3% 4.8%
2023/24 41.90 -0.32
likely between -0.56 and -0.09		 56.4% 8.7%
2022/23 41.90 -0.62
likely between -0.85 and -0.38		 59.6% 8.9%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 52.4 46.6 3.0 2.8 11.1%
2023/24 52.2 47.2 0.0 5.0 9.6%
2022/23 56.2 47.2 4.0 5.0 16.0%
2021/22 49.7 46.2 2.0 1.5 7.0%
2020/21 50.9 44.9 1.0 5.0 11.8%
2019/20 50.7 46.7 3.0 1.0 7.9%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Stockport publishes an admission zone for this school (Harrytown Catholic High School).

Covers: 2,596 live postcodes across 66.242 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Hazel Grove High School, Marple Hall School, Reddish Vale High School, St Anne's RC Voluntary Academy, Stockport School, The Kingsway School and Werneth School. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

133 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Harrytown Catholic High School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Harrytown Catholic High School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.