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Girls selective secondary school in Altrincham, Trafford

Loreto Grammar School

Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 4AH

Ofsted Outstanding · 2022 Selective Sixth form Roman Catholic Girls Full
School website 01619283703

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 28 September 2022

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 28 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

73.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

92% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

98% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

81% 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

1.06confidence interval 0.82 to 1.31

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
B+
Average points per entry
43.6

England average 32.3

A level students
137

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1075
Places
1041
How full
Full — 1075 pupils against 1041 places
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
5%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
5%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
15%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
0%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
1%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
100%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
99%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
81%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
158

After sixth form

Went to university
79%

England 50%

In education, work or training
94%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
144

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

61% 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
88%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
135

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 025B, 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
58%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
8%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
62%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
4%

England 17%

Households with no car
25%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
34%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
LORETO GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Headteacher
Headteacher: Jane Beever
Local authority
Trafford
Ward
Altrincham
Constituency
Altrincham and Sale West
URN
138464

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
North Cestrian SchoolFree schools No grade 54.2 0.1 mi
Altrincham Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 80.6 0.5 mi
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 48.9 0.7 mi
Altrincham Grammar School for BoysAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 78.5 0.9 mi
Wellington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 57.3 1 mi
Altrincham CollegeAcademy converter No grade 48.5 1.4 mi
Saint Ambrose CollegeAcademy converter No grade 76.2 2 mi
Ashton-on-Mersey SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 52.1 2.3 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
Maidstone Grammar SchoolFoundation school No grade 68.4
St Bede's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 55
Wilmington Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2022 66.7
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, HorncastleAcademy converter Good 2024 66.2
JCoSSVoluntary aided school Good 2022 60.9
Torquay Girls' Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 68.6
Plymouth High School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2024 65.5
Langley Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.6

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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