The School Record

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

Whalley Range 11-18 High School

URN 141264 · Secondary · Academy converter · Manchester

Wilbraham Road, Manchester, M16 8GW

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, 192 families named Whalley Range 11-18 High School as their first preference, and the school made 252 offers.

That is 0.76 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 22% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 22% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.78 in 2021–2022 and 0.79 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 11 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 192 598 252 0.76
2024 216 652 266 0.81
2023 190 629 261 0.73
2022 225 577 269 0.84
2021 193 567 268 0.72
2020 214 635 269 0.80
2019 204 610 269 0.76
2018 241 655 270 0.89
2017 299 743 260 1.15
2016 251 669 266 0.94
2015 247 638 270 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.

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 ungraded inspection, 28 April 2022

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

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 52.10 - 69.6% 48.5%
2023/24 51.90 0.79
likely between 0.61 and 0.97		 70.1% 49.6%
2022/23 50.00 0.36
likely between 0.19 and 0.54		 65.8% 45.5%

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
2024/25 111.3 103.5 5.0 2.8 7.0%
2023/24 112.9 99.5 2.6 10.8 11.9%
2022/23 112.9 95.7 6.6 10.6 15.2%
2021/22 116.9 102.9 4.0 10.0 12.0%
2020/21 109.6 100.8 5.8 3.0 8.0%
2019/20 109.1 100.5 3.0 5.6 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

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Whalley Range 11-18 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.