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Girls selective secondary school in Altrincham, Trafford

Altrincham Grammar School for Girls

Cavendish Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2NL

Ofsted Outstanding · 2022 Selective Sixth form Girls Full
School website 01619125912

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 11 October 2022

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 11 October 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

80.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

100% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

100% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

100% 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

1.01confidence interval 0.80 to 1.23

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
48.9

England average 32.3

A level students
176

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1381
Places
1370
How full
Full — 1381 pupils against 1370 places
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
11%

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
25%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
5%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
100%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
100%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
87%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
203

After sixth form

Went to university
78%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
192

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

82% 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
92%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
174

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
Girls
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BRIGHT FUTURES EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Stephanie Gill
Local authority
Trafford
Ward
Bowdon
Constituency
Altrincham and Sale West
URN
137289

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Altrincham Grammar School for BoysAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 78.5 0.5 mi
Loreto Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 73.7 0.5 mi
North Cestrian SchoolFree schools No grade 54.2 0.5 mi
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 48.9 0.9 mi
Wellington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 57.3 1.4 mi
Altrincham CollegeAcademy converter No grade 48.5 1.5 mi
Saint Ambrose CollegeAcademy converter No grade 76.2 1.8 mi
Ashton-on-Mersey SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 52.1 2.8 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
Highworth Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 70.8
Dr Challoner's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 73.9
Marling SchoolAcademy converter No grade 73.9
St Aidan's Church of England High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 56.4
Tonbridge Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.2
Denmark Road High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 72.9
Lancaster Royal Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2021 74.1
Poole Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 70.2

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.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.