The School Record

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

Reddish Vale High School

URN 145133 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Stockport

Reddish Vale Road, Stockport, SK5 7HD

Ofsted category of concern: Special measures

At its inspection on 19 June 2024 (Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)), this school was placed in the category special measures.

Ofsted judged the school to be failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education, and not to have the capacity to make the necessary improvements without help.

This is about that one inspection. Schools do come out of these categories. This page does not tell you where the school stands today. Check that with Ofsted.

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, 164 families named Reddish Vale High School as their first preference, and the school made 201 offers.

That is 0.82 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 28% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 28% 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 0.72 in 2021–2022 and 0.83 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 8 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 164 341 201 0.82
2024 181 368 212 0.85
2023 184 309 226 0.81
2022 215 301 243 0.88
2021 143 243 255 0.56
2020 168 277 236 0.71
2019 167 263 228 0.73
2018 143 225 205 0.70

“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 graded inspection (previous framework), 19 June 2024

Category of concern: Special measures

Overall effectiveness: Inadequate

Quality of education: Inadequate

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Inadequate

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 37.70 - 40.9% 16.5%
2023/24 42.30 -0.29
likely between -0.49 and -0.09		 55.4% 21.8%
2022/23 39.60 -0.50
likely between -0.71 and -0.30		 50.8% 9.4%

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 62.3 50.0 8.6 3.7 19.7%
2023/24 66.1 49.2 9.0 7.9 25.6%
2022/23 60.9 50.7 5.8 4.4 16.7%
2021/22 63.6 52.4 6.0 5.2 17.6%
2020/21 56.0 45.0 7.0 4.0 19.6%
2019/20 55.4 45.8 4.0 5.6 17.3%

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 (Reddish Vale High School).

Covers: 731 live postcodes across 7.909 km².

This zone overlaps others. An address here may also fall inside the catchment of Harrytown Catholic High School and St Anne's RC Voluntary Academy. Being in this catchment does not mean being in only this one.

94 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 Reddish Vale 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 Reddish Vale 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.