Beis Yaakov High School

Beis Yaakov High School is a small, caring and close-knit orthodox Jewish girls' secondary school where pupils feel happy and proud, build respectful relationships with staff and trust adults to help if they have concerns. Safeguarding is effective. The school is a single academy trust and has been through significant change, including a headteacher appointed in February 2024 and many new staff. It no longer requires special measures following its previous inadequate judgement, but this graded inspection found that provision still requires improvement across the four key judgements; no overall effectiveness grade was given.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy, proud and part of a caring, close-knit community.
• Pupils have respectful relationships with staff who know them well.
• Pupils trust that there are people they can talk to about concerns.
• New behaviour systems have significantly improved the school's atmosphere and culture.
• Most pupils, including those with SEND, achieve well in the subjects they study.
• The breadth and ambition of the overarching curriculum have considerably improved.
• External support has effectively trained subject leaders and developed curriculum thinking.
• Approaches to checking pupils' understanding have improved in many subjects.
• SEND identification systems have improved and information is now routinely shared with teachers.
• Attendance work has been significantly strengthened and is starting to have a positive impact.
• Trustees and leaders have maintained a clear vision and staff feel well supported.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Personal development lessons have been extended to cover important safety information, including online safety.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum breadth is not yet fully commensurate with the national curriculum.
• Some subjects have underdeveloped or newly introduced curricula and variable teaching quality.
• Teachers in some subjects choose inappropriate activities and miss misconceptions or gaps in learning.
• Staff do not consistently use information about vulnerable pupils, including those with SEND, to adapt teaching.
• There is no coherent approach to supporting pupils who have gaps in their reading knowledge.
• Too many pupils remain persistently absent from school.
• Behaviour and attendance information is not used swiftly or strategically enough to provide support.
• A small number of pupils struggle to meet behaviour expectations where curriculum deficiencies remain.
• Pupils' social and cultural experiences rarely extend beyond their local community.
• Pupils are not taught about the full range of protected characteristics.
• The careers programme is still developing and pupils' understanding of the world of work is limited.
• Pupils' limited wider-world experiences hinder their preparation for life in modern Britain.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Beis Yaakov High School attended 93.4% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 15.4% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 4.9% of pupils at Beis Yaakov High School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Beis Yaakov High School had 15.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 21.9% of pupils at Beis Yaakov High School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 5.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Beis Yaakov High School received £8,947 and spent £8,667 for each of its 285 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £93,000 (£326 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Beis Yaakov High School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Beis Yaakov High School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Beis Yaakov High School last inspected by Ofsted?

Beis Yaakov High School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Beis Yaakov High School have?

Beis Yaakov High School has 283 pupils on roll.

What age range does Beis Yaakov High School cover?

Beis Yaakov High School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Beis Yaakov High School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 50.4, and 50% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Beis Yaakov High School?

Beis Yaakov High School is at 69 Broom Lane, Bury New Road, Salford, Greater Manchester, M7 4FF.