Secondary
Wellington School
Wellington Road, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7RH
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1536 of 1442 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
- Local authority
- Trafford
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Trust
- WELLINGTON SCHOOL
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 95.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 127.4
- Pupils per adult
- 11.8
- Pupils
- 1,509
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 May 2022
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
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
63%
12 points below the Altrincham average (75% across 8 schools)
57.3
7.4 below the Altrincham average (64.7 across 8 schools)
5th of 8 by our score, among the secondary schools in Altrincham we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 57.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.18 |
| Entered the EBacc | 51% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 84% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 63% |
| A level average points per entry | 38.9 |
| A level students | 86 |
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 | 57% |
| 22/23 | 54% |
| 23/24 | 59% |
| 24/25 | 63% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 42.2 |
| 22/23 | 37.5 |
| 23/24 | 39.3 |
| 24/25 | 38.9 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.20 |
| 22/23 | +0.13 |
| 23/24 | +0.56 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 54.6 |
| 22/23 | 51.4 |
| 23/24 | 56.3 |
| 24/25 | 57.3 |
Wellington Road, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7RH
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.
Trafford 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
- Headteacher
- Stuart Beeley
- Address
- Wellington Road, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7RH
- Telephone
- 01619284157