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Secondary school in Oldham

The Crompton House Church of England Academy

Rochdale Road, Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire, OL2 7HS

Ofsted Good · 2024 Sixth form Church of England Full
School website 01706847451

Ofsted

Goodas at 1 May 2024

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 1 May 2024.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

46.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

43% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

65% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

64% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.02confidence interval -0.18 to 0.13

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
C+
Average points per entry
34.1

England average 32.3

A level students
115

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1865
Places
1840
How full
Full — 1865 pupils against 1840 places
Girls / boys
936 / 929
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
16%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
19%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
5%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
5%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
88%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
46%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
234

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
91%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
138

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

21% 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
66%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
134

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 Oldham 001C, 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
26%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
20%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
84%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
17%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
49%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Church of England
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
CROMPTON HOUSE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Karl Newell
Local authority
Oldham
Ward
Crompton
Constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth
URN
137294

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
E-ACT Royton and Crompton AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.7 0.9 mi
St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2022 39.7 1.4 mi
E-ACT the Oldham Academy NorthAcademy sponsor led No grade 48.2 1.6 mi
Hollingworth AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 51.1 1.9 mi
Kingsway Park High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 35.3 2 mi
The Blue Coat CofE SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 59.1 2.5 mi
Ellen House SecondaryOther independent school No grade 2.5 mi
North Chadderton SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.8 2.5 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
St Ursula's Convent SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 55.1
Turton SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 43.7
The Blandford SchoolVoluntary controlled school Good 2024 47
Saint Aidan's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 47
Carterton Community CollegeCommunity school No grade 33.8
Tudor Grange Academy WorcesterAcademy sponsor led No grade 45.9
The Polesworth SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 42.7
Bristol Free SchoolFree schools No grade 56.3

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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