Secondary
The Rudheath Senior Academy
Middlewich Road, Rudheath, Northwich, CW9 7DT
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 576 of 840 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
- Local authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- SEN provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Trust
- NORTH WEST ACADEMIES TRUST LIMITED
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 37.3
- All staff (FTE)
- 52.5
- Pupils per adult
- 11.3
- Pupils
- 593
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 January 2023
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
28%
21 points below the Northwich average (49% across 5 schools)
35.7
12.2 below the Northwich average (47.9 across 5 schools)
5th of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Northwich we can score - 6 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 | 35.7 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.98 |
| Entered the EBacc | 23% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 50% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 28% |
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 | 23% |
| 22/23 | 27% |
| 23/24 | 27% |
| 24/25 | 28% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.28 |
| 22/23 | -0.56 |
| 23/24 | -0.22 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 38.4 |
| 22/23 | 34.9 |
| 23/24 | 37.2 |
| 24/25 | 35.7 |
Middlewich Road, Rudheath, Northwich, CW9 7DT
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.
Cheshire West and Chester 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
- Christine Williams
- Address
- Middlewich Road, Rudheath, Northwich, CW9 7DT
- Telephone
- 0160642515