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Boys selective secondary school in Altrincham, Trafford

Altrincham Grammar School for Boys

Marlborough Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2RS

Ofsted Outstanding · 2022 Selective Sixth form Boys Full
School website 01619280858

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 27 September 2022

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 27 September 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

78.5 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

99% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

100% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

53% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

1.32confidence interval 1.09 to 1.55

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
A-
Average points per entry
45.5

England average 32.3

A level students
201

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1432
Places
1231
How full
Full — 1432 pupils against 1231 places
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
8%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
6%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
49%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
8%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
99%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
99%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
96%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
178

After sixth form

Went to university
75%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
201

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

76% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
90%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
201

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Trafford 027C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
62%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
6%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
81%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
10%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
45%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE HAMBLIN EDUCATION TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Graeme Wright
Local authority
Trafford
Ward
Hale
Constituency
Altrincham and Sale West
URN
136458

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Altrincham Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 80.6 0.5 mi
North Cestrian SchoolFree schools No grade 54.2 0.8 mi
Loreto Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 73.7 0.9 mi
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 48.9 0.9 mi
Altrincham CollegeAcademy converter No grade 48.5 1.2 mi
Saint Ambrose CollegeAcademy converter No grade 76.2 1.4 mi
Wellington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 57.3 1.4 mi
Dixons Newall Green AcademyFree schools No grade 2.6 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Tiffin SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 79.1
Beis Yaakov High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.3
King Edward VI Grammar School, ChelmsfordAcademy converter No grade 83.3
The North Halifax Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 68.5
Haberdashers' AdamsAcademy converter Good 2022 71.8
Heathside SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 58.7
South Wilts Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77
St Joseph's CollegeAcademy converter No grade 62.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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