North West
Secondary schools in Cheshire East
172 schools, 59,614 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 40.7.
Ofsted across Cheshire East
Good84
Outstanding9
Requires improvement7
Inadequate1
No overall grade71
101 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 71 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Cheshire East
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbach High School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter | Sandbach | Good 2022 | 55.6 |
| Knutsford AcademyAcademy converter | Knutsford | No grade | 54.9 |
| The Fallibroome AcademyAcademy converter | Macclesfield | Good 2022 | 53.4 |
| Poynton High SchoolAcademy converter | Stockport | Good 2023 | 53 |
| Alsager SchoolAcademy converter | Stoke-on-Trent | Good 2023 | 51.9 |
| Wilmslow High SchoolCommunity school | Wilmslow | No grade | 51.4 |
| Tytherington SchoolAcademy converter | Macclesfield | Good 2022 | 50.1 |
| Brine Leas SchoolAcademy converter | Nantwich | Good 2022 | 49.7 |
| All Hallows Catholic CollegeAcademy converter | Macclesfield | No grade | 49.6 |
| Holmes Chapel Comprehensive SchoolAcademy converter | Crewe | No grade | 48.2 |
| Sandbach SchoolFree schools | Sandbach | No grade | 48.2 |
| Shavington AcademyAcademy converter | Shavington | Good 2023 | 47.8 |
| St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter | Crewe | No grade | 47.7 |
| Eaton Bank AcademyAcademy converter | Congleton | No grade | 46.9 |
| Congleton High SchoolAcademy converter | Congleton | Good 2023 | 44.8 |
| The Macclesfield AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Macclesfield | Requires improvement 2020 | 42.7 |
| Middlewich High SchoolAcademy converter | Middlewich | Good 2022 | 41.2 |
| Ruskin Community High SchoolCommunity school | Crewe | Good 2024 | 37.9 |
| The Oaks AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Crewe | Good 2024 | 35.4 |
| Crewe Engineering and Design UTCUniversity technical college | Crewe | No grade | 32.4 |
| Sir William Stanier SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Crewe | No grade | 28.4 |
| Cheshire Studio SchoolStudio schools | Crewe | Good 2023 | 24 |
| Malbank School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter | Nantwich | Good 2022 | — |