Abraham Moss Community School

Abraham Moss Community School is a large, diverse all-through school within The Dean Trust, serving a community with high levels of disadvantage and many pupils who speak English as an additional language. The inspection found the school to be meeting the expected standard across all evaluated areas, with safeguarding standards met. Leaders have brought much-needed stability since joining the trust and have driven improvements in attendance, behaviour, curriculum and personal development. Pupils feel safe, attend regularly and are happy in a warm, inclusive community. Notable strengths include the early years provision, where children make a strong start through a language-rich curriculum and excellent outdoor learning. The school is highly inclusive, identifies SEND and EAL needs quickly and provides effective targeted support. Attendance is above national averages, persistent absence has fallen sharply, and behaviour has improved markedly, with suspensions reduced significantly. Disadvantaged pupils make strong progress in some subjects, including above-average EBacc progress in 2025, and the broad personal development offer helps pupils develop leadership, citizenship and career readiness. There are still areas for improvement. Curriculum delivery is uneven at times, and some older pupils have gaps in foundational reading, writing and numeracy. Key stage 4 attainment is below national averages in English and maths GCSE and Attainment 8, and disadvantaged pupils' outcomes remain below those of non-disadvantaged pupils nationally in several measures. Personal development topics such as misogyny need to be introduced earlier, and leaders should sharpen monitoring of pupils' participation and the impact of the wider opportunities offered. Overall, the school is on a positive trajectory but needs to ensure consistently high-quality implementation across all phases and subjects.

Strengths

• Warm, inclusive school community where pupils feel safe, happy and proud of their diversity.
• Attendance is above national averages and persistent absence has reduced sharply, including for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND.
• Positive behaviour culture with respectful pupils, lively social times and significantly reduced suspensions.
• Strong early years provision with a language-rich curriculum, effective phonics and outstanding outdoor learning.
• Effective support for pupils with SEND, EAL and new arrivals through timely identification and tailored provision.
• Disadvantaged pupils make significant progress in some subjects and above-average EBacc progress in 2025.
• Strong leadership and governance since joining The Dean Trust, bringing stability and driving improvement.
• High-quality professional development for staff and a positive approach to staff wellbeing.
• Broad personal development offer including pupil leadership, British values, careers education and extracurricular activities.
• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture where concerns are actively identified and managed.

Areas for Improvement

• Curriculum delivery is sometimes uneven, with some teachers not using the most effective methods, which limits how deeply some pupils learn.
• Some pupils, particularly older pupils, have gaps in foundational reading, writing and numeracy that affect readiness for future learning.
• Key stage 4 attainment is below national averages in English and maths GCSE and in Attainment 8.
• Disadvantaged pupils' outcomes remain below non-disadvantaged national levels in several key measures.
• Important personal development topics such as misogyny are introduced too late to fully equip pupils for life in modern Britain.
• Monitoring of pupils' participation in and the impact of the extracurricular and personal development offer lacks rigour.
• Reading attainment at key stage 2 was below the national average in 2024/25.
• Destinations after 16 are below the national average.

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 Abraham Moss Community School attended 92.0% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 23.5% 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, 8.2% of pupils at Abraham Moss Community School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was 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 Abraham Moss Community School had 17.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.5% 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, 12.3% of pupils at Abraham Moss Community School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 4.7% 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 Abraham Moss Community School received £9,010 and spent £8,957 for each of its 1,825 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,403,000 (£769 per pupil).

Across all 11 schools of The Dean Trust, income was £8,955 and spending £9,005 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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All schools in Manchester · Manchester local authority: places and applications

Abraham Moss Community School is part of The Dean Trust, which runs 11 schools. The nearest others:

• Dean Trust Ardwick Manchester
• Ashton-on-Mersey School Sale
• Partington Central Academy Manchester
• Broadoak School Manchester
• Forest Gate Academy Manchester
• Dean Trust Rose Bridge Wigan
• Dean Trust Wigan Wigan
• Lord Derby Academy Liverpool
• Blacklow Brow School Liverpool
• Park View Academy Liverpool

What is Abraham Moss Community School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Abraham Moss Community School is Expected standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Abraham Moss Community School last inspected by Ofsted?

Abraham Moss Community School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Abraham Moss Community School have?

Abraham Moss Community School has 1,793 pupils on roll.

What age range does Abraham Moss Community School cover?

Abraham Moss Community School for pupils aged 3 to 16.

What are Abraham Moss Community School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 38.8, and 35% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

What are Abraham Moss Community School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 58% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Abraham Moss Community School?

Abraham Moss Community School is at Crescent Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M8 5UF.