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Secondary school in Macclesfield, Cheshire East

The Fallibroome Academy

Priory Lane, Upton, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4AF

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Full
School website 01625827898

Ofsted

Goodas at 30 November 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 30 November 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

53.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

56% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

76% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

26% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top quarter 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 top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.56confidence interval 0.38 to 0.74

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
38.6

England average 32.3

A level students
170

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1532
Places
1538
How full
Nearly full — 1532 of 1538 places taken
Girls / boys
763 / 769
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
16%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
5%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
7%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
61%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
240

After sixth form

Went to university
62%

England 50%

In education, work or training
86%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
7%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
198

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

34% 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
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
157

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 Cheshire East 015B, 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
29%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
19%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
51%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
29%

England 17%

Households with no car
21%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
HALLIARD TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Ross Martland
Local authority
Cheshire East
Ward
Broken Cross and Upton
Constituency
Macclesfield
URN
136278

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The King's School In MacclesfieldOther independent school No grade 0.5 mi
All Hallows Catholic CollegeAcademy converter No grade 49.6 1.3 mi
Beech Hall SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.3 mi
Tytherington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 50.1 1.4 mi
The Macclesfield AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2020 42.7 1.7 mi
Alderley Edge School for GirlsOther independent school No grade 4 mi
Wilmslow High SchoolCommunity school No grade 51.4 4.6 mi
Poynton High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 53 5.5 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
King David High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2022 54.3
Wren Academy FinchleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 59.8
Knole AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 44.3
Catmose CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 52.9
Verulam SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 52.5
Cirencester Kingshill SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.2
Wallingford SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 53.9
The Martin High School AnsteyAcademy converter Good 2024 44.6

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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