Secondary
The Kingsway School
Foxland Road, Cheadle, SK8 4QX
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1260 of 1570 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
- Local authority
- Stockport
- SEN provision
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- EDUCATION LEARNING TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 78.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 118.2
- Pupils per adult
- 11.1
- Pupils
- 1,308
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 February 2026
- AchievementExpected standard
- Attendance and behaviourExpected standard
- Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
- InclusionExpected standard
- Leadership and governanceExpected standard
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
May 2023
Previous framework
Requires improvement
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentRequires improvement
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
January 2020
Previous framework
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
GCSE results
51%
7 points below the Cheadle average (58% across 4 schools)
46.5
6.7 below the Cheadle average (53.2 across 4 schools)
4th of 4 by our score, among the secondary schools in Cheadle 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 | 46.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.16 |
| Entered the EBacc | 46% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 51% |
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 | 55% |
| 22/23 | 44% |
| 23/24 | 42% |
| 24/25 | 51% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.07 |
| 22/23 | -0.06 |
| 23/24 | -0.26 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 53.1 |
| 22/23 | 46.9 |
| 23/24 | 45.0 |
| 24/25 | 46.5 |
Foxland Road, Cheadle, SK8 4QX
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.
Stockport 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
- Anna Fowler
- Address
- Foxland Road, Cheadle, SK8 4QX
- Telephone
- 01614287706