North West
Secondary schools in Rochdale
104 schools, 37,955 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 33.8.
Ofsted across Rochdale
Good51
Requires improvement6
Outstanding6
Inadequate1
No overall grade40
64 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 40 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Rochdale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollingworth AcademyAcademy converter | Rochdale | Good 2022 | 51.1 |
| Oulder Hill Leadership AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Rochdale | No grade | 44.4 |
| St Anne's Church of England AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Manchester | Good 2024 | 44.1 |
| Wardle AcademyAcademy converter | Rochdale | Good 2022 | 44.1 |
| Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England CollegeVoluntary aided school | Heywood | No grade | 43.4 |
| Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Manchester | Good 2022 | 40.9 |
| Dixons Middleton AcademyAcademy converter | Manchester | Good 2024 | 40.3 |
| St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Rochdale | Requires improvement 2022 | 39.7 |
| Matthew Moss High SchoolAcademy converter | Rochdale | Good 2024 | 39.4 |
| Newhouse AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Heywood | Requires improvement 2023 | 38.9 |
| Kingsway Park High SchoolAcademy converter | Rochdale | No grade | 35.3 |
| Edgar Wood AcademyFree schools | Heywood | Requires improvement 2023 | — |
| Falinge Park High SchoolAcademy converter | Rochdale | Good 2023 | — |