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The Radclyffe School

Secondary Ages 11-16 1,430 pupils Oldham
Ofsted: Good
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The Radclyffe School is an academy converter in Oldham for pupils aged 11 to 16. It has 1,430 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for The Radclyffe School is Good, from an inspection in February 2024 of its predecessor, The Radclyffe School. In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 42.2, and 37% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Ofsted inspection: May 2025. GCSE results: 2026.

Type Secondary / Academy converter
Age Range 11-16
Religion Unknown
Address Hunt Lane
Chadderton
Oldham
Greater Manchester
OL9 0LS
Reference Number 151610

General Makeup

Number of pupils 1430
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 48.25%
Girls: 51.75%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 42.1%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 33.9%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 23.7

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
7 131 148 279
8 135 147 282
9 121 153 274
10 156 142 298
11 147 150 297

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
Pakistani 24.6%
White, British 15.9%
African 3.4%
White, Other 2.1%
White & Asian 1.9%
Unclassified 1.2%
Mixed, Other 1.1%
Asian, Other 0.6%
White & Black (Caribbean) 0.4%
Chinese 0.4%
White & Black (African) 0.3%
Indian 0.1%
Caribbean 0.1%

This school has not been graded since it changed URN, usually on converting to an academy. The rating shown is from its predecessor, The Radclyffe School, inspected in February 2024.

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
Last Report Date This school has not had an inspection yet.
Date Report
08 May 2025 Academy conversion letter

Attainment 8 Score

Attaimenment 8 is a measure of a pupil's average grade across a set of 8 subjects. The 8 subjects which make up Attainment 8 are:

  • English
  • Maths
  • 3 subjects from qualifications that count towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), like sciences, language and history
  • 3 more GCSE qualifications (including EBacc subjects) or technical awards from a list approved by the Department for Education

Each grade a pupil gets is assigned a point score from 9 (the highest) to 1 (the lowest). These scores are added up, with English and maths counted twice.

School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
42.2

GCSE Results

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Grade 5 or above in English and maths 36.7%
5 or more GCSEs at grade 9-4 (or A-C) 52.5%
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Year 7 admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 137 48
Third Preference 118 38
From another Local Authority 23 9

Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 The Radclyffe School had 1,457 pupils for 1,500 places. 43 places (2.9%) were unfilled.

Year 7 intake in the “Oldham Secondary” planning area

Oldham counted 3,611 Year 7 pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 3,517 in 2031–32, down 3%.

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 2025–26 The Radclyffe School had 15.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7).

Pupils per teacher

2026
Pupils per adult 10.0
Teachers who left state teaching –
Teachers who took any sick leave –
Sick days per teacher –

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, 12.1% of pupils at The Radclyffe School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Moderate learning difficulty 52 3
Social, emotional and mental health 45 9
Speech, language and communication needs 16 11
Autistic spectrum disorder 17 2
Other difficulty or disability 13 1
Specific learning difficulty 13 1
Physical disability 9 1
Hearing impairment 7 1
Severe learning difficulty 1 0

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.

Name Distance
St Herbert's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Edward Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 9SN
0.25 miles
St Luke's CofE Primary School
Albion Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 9HT
0.38 miles
Mills Hill Primary School
Baytree Avenue, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 0NH
0.46 miles
Christ Church CofE Primary School
Crawley Way, Off Denton Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 9ED
0.61 miles
Bare Trees Primary School
Holly Grove, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 0DX
0.64 miles
The Chadderton Preparatory School
Broadway, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 0AD
0.67 miles
St Matthew's CofE Primary School
Chadderton Hall Road, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 0BN
0.77 miles
Halcyon Way School
Gordon Street, Chadderton, Oldham Ol9 9QE
0.81 miles
St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School
Tonge Roughs, Aspinall Street, Middleton, Manchester, M24 2BE
0.82 miles
Kingfisher Special School
Foxdenton Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 9QR
0.82 miles
Burnley Brow Community School
Victoria Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 0BY
0.83 miles
Freehold Community Academy
Sidmouth Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 7RG
0.93 miles
Elm Wood Primary School
Elm Street, Middleton, Manchester, M24 2EG
0.93 miles
Maple Leaf Primary School
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1.06 miles
Westwood Academy
Middleton Road, Oldham, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 6BH
1.07 miles
Yew Tree Community School
Alcester Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 8LD
1.16 miles
Richmond Academy
Winterbottom Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 6HY
1.22 miles
Stanley Road Primary School
Derby Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 7HX
1.23 miles
Corpus Christi RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Stanley Road, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 7HA
1.29 miles
Northmoor Academy
Alderson Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 6AQ
1.32 miles
Name Distance
Saint John Henry Newman Roman Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy
Off Canon Dolan Way, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 9QY
0.51 miles
North Chadderton School
Chadderton Hall Road, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 0BN
0.7 miles
Chances Mentoring
Unit 3 Whitegate Business Centre, Jardine Way, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 9JT
0.87 miles
Ellen House Secondary
Ellen House, Waddington Street, Oldham, OL9 6QH
0.93 miles
Path 4
Unit 1 Ayaan Business Park, Waddington Street, Oldham, OL9 6QH
0.93 miles
EdStart Schools Oldham and Rochdale
276 Maygate, Off Chadderton Way, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 6TR
1.09 miles
Westwood High
Kelsall Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 6HR
1.1 miles
Dixons Middleton Academy
Kenyon Lane, Middleton, Manchester, M24 2GT
1.11 miles
Darul Hadis Latifiah Northwest
Plum Street, Oldham, Lancashire, OL8 1TJ
1.25 miles
The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy
Bloom Street, Shaw, Oldham, OL9 6BP
1.33 miles
The Oldham College
Rochdale Road, Oldham, Lancashire, OL9 6AA
1.4 miles
Thornycroft School
Newport Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 1RE
1.41 miles
Oldham Sixth Form College
Union Street West, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 1XU
1.51 miles
E-ACT the Oldham Academy North
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1.56 miles
Hulme Grammar School
Chamber Road, Oldham, OL8 4BX
1.68 miles
The Springboard Project
2 Medtia Square, Phoenix Street, Oldham, OL1 1AN
1.69 miles
Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School
Rochdale Road, Middleton, Manchester, Lancashire, M24 2GL
1.78 miles
Oasis Academy Oldham
Hollins Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 4JZ
1.81 miles
The Blue Coat CofE School
Egerton Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire, OL1 3SQ
1.9 miles
Westwood Boys School
121 Union Street, Oldham, OL1 1TE
1.91 miles

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What is The Radclyffe School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for The Radclyffe School is Good, from an inspection in February 2024 of its predecessor, The Radclyffe School.

When was The Radclyffe School last inspected by Ofsted?

The Radclyffe School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does The Radclyffe School have?

The Radclyffe School has 1,430 pupils on roll.

What age range does The Radclyffe School cover?

The Radclyffe School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are The Radclyffe School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 42.2, and 37% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is The Radclyffe School?

The Radclyffe School is at Hunt Lane, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 0LS.

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