North West
Special 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.
Special schools in Rochdale
Sorted by name. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookland SchoolOther independent special school | Royton | No grade | — |
| Cedar Lodge SchoolOther independent special school | Preston | No grade | — |
| Great Howarth SchoolOther independent special school | Rochdale | No grade | — |
| Healey Learning CentreOther independent special school | Rochdale | No grade | — |
| Meadows SchoolOther independent special school | Rochdale | No grade | — |
| Newlands SchoolCommunity special school | Manchester | No grade | — |
| Oak Haven SchoolCommunity special school | Heywood | Requires improvement 2023 | — |
| RedwoodCommunity special school | Rochdale | Good 2022 | — |
| SpringsideCommunity special school | Manchester | Good 2022 | — |
| Whitehall AcademyOther independent special school | Rochdale | No grade | — |
| Willow View SchoolOther independent special school | Rochdale | No grade | — |