Secondary school in Manchester
St Matthew's RC High School
Nuthurst Road, Moston, Manchester, M40 0EW
Ofsted
Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 15 October 2024.
Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.
GCSE results 2024/25
Attainment 8 score
The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.
Grade 5+ in English & maths
Grade 4+ in English & maths
EBacc average point score
Entered the EBacc
On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.
Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.
Progress 8 2023/24
Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below 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.
Pupils
- Pupils on roll
- 1327
- Places
- 1350
- How full
- Nearly full — 1327 of 1350 places taken
- Girls / boys
- 635 / 692
- Overall absence
- 7%
- Persistently absent
- 16%
secondary schools average 8.6%
secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions
- Free school meals, last 6 years
- 59%
- English as an additional language
- 27%
- With an EHC plan
- 3%
- On SEN support
- 15%
England 25.7%
England 18.7%
England 3.5%
England 15%
What pupils do next
After GCSEs
- In education, work or training
- 84%
- Stayed in education
- 80%
- Started an apprenticeship
- 2%
- Stayed at this school's sixth form
- 3%
- No sustained destination
- 11%
- Pupils in the cohort
- 279
England 91.4%
England 85.4%
England 3.5%
England 5.8%
A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year. 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 Manchester 005D, 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
- 22%
- Adults with no qualifications
- 28%
- Households owning their home
- 45%
- Households in social housing
- 38%
- Households with no car
- 31%
- Adults economically inactive
- 44%
England 33.8%
England 18.3%
England 62.7%
England 17%
England 21.9%
England 39.9%
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- Ages 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Sixth form
- No
- Nursery
- No
- Boarding
- Day school
- Trust
- EMMAUS CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST
- Headteacher
- Headteacher: Andrew Nightingale
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Ward
- Charlestown
- Constituency
- Blackley and Middleton South
- URN
- 148389
The unique reference number used in all official school data.
Nearest secondary schools
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-op Academy North ManchesterAcademy sponsor led | Good 2024 | 42.4 | 0.7 mi |
| Harpurhey Alternative Provision SchoolOther independent school | No grade | — | 0.8 mi |
| Greater Manchester Independent SchoolOther independent school | No grade | — | 1.1 mi |
| Co-op Academy FailsworthAcademy sponsor led | Good 2024 | 43 | 1.5 mi |
| Saint John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyAcademy converter | Requires improvement 2023 | — | 1.6 mi |
| Oasis Academy OldhamAcademy sponsor led | Good 2024 | 42.8 | 2 mi |
| Co-op Academy ManchesterAcademy sponsor led | Good 2023 | 44.9 | 2 mi |
| Dixons Middleton AcademyAcademy converter | Good 2024 | 40.3 | 2 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.
| School | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Central Foundation Girls' SchoolVoluntary aided school | No grade | 54.3 |
| Thomas Telford University Technical CollegeUniversity technical college | No grade | 53.7 |
| Saltley AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Good 2023 | 39.4 |
| All Saints Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Good 2023 | 44.1 |
| North Cambridge AcademyAcademy sponsor led | No grade | 43.9 |
| Ark Acton AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Good 2023 | 42.1 |
| Ormiston Bolingbroke AcademyAcademy sponsor led | No grade | 35.9 |
| Holyhead SchoolAcademy converter | No grade | 43.2 |
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.
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