Secondary
Co-op Academy Manchester
Plant Hill Road, Higher Blackley, Manchester, M9 0WQ
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1554 of 1650 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.7
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Trust
- THE CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 67.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 118.7
- Pupils per adult
- 13.5
- Pupils
- 1,608
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
37%
7 points below the Manchester average (44% across 60 schools)
44.9
1.9 below the Manchester average (46.8 across 60 schools)
31st of 60 by our score, among the secondary schools in Manchester we can score - 78 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 44.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.79 |
| Entered the EBacc | 21% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 57% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43% |
| 22/23 | 31% |
| 23/24 | 40% |
| 24/25 | 37% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.01 |
| 22/23 | -0.22 |
| 23/24 | -0.02 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49.3 |
| 22/23 | 42.1 |
| 23/24 | 43.0 |
| 24/25 | 44.9 |
Plant Hill Road, Higher Blackley, Manchester, M9 0WQ
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Manchester admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Phillip Quirk
- Address
- Plant Hill Road, Higher Blackley, Manchester, M9 0WQ
- Telephone
- 01617953005