Abraham Moss Community School
Academy converter · 1,793 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.7
Academy sponsor led
Manchester Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 1,025of 1,170 places
- Free school meals
- 58.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 229
- Ofsted
- Good, 27 September 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Ducie High School (URN 105567).
What the data says
Of the 224 pupils who finished Year 11 at Manchester Academy in 2023, 26% moved to a sixth form college, 48% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.
Business Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 42% of the year group took it, against 18% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 45.4 against 46.1 across England and 44.8 in Manchester, with 38% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and 1% went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Manchester and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Manchester Academy | Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 224 | 6,414 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 90% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 88% | 86% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 14% | 15% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 26% | 30% | 13% |
| — further education college | 48% | 39% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 0% | 1% | 3% |
| Employment | 1% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 9% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 4% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Manchester Academy | Manchester | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 45.4 | 44.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 38% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 57% | 47% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.25 | 4.01 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 56% | 52% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 40.3 | 39.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 51.9 | 50.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 82% | 44% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 228 | 100% | 89% | 15% | 20% | 62% |
| Mathematics | 228 | 100% | 88% | 20% | 22% | 61% |
| English Literature | 227 | 99% | 86% | 23% | 21% | 71% |
| Combined Science | 174 | 76% | 65% | 8% | 9% | 54% |
| History | 119 | 52% | 41% | 18% | 26% | 64% |
| Business Studies | 97 | 42% | 18% | 6% | 20% | 49% |
| Spanish | 66 | 29% | 19% | 17% | 27% | 56% |
| Geography | 56 | 24% | 41% | 13% | 25% | 61% |
| Biology | 54 | 24% | 23% | 43% | 45% | 93% |
| French | 52 | 23% | 18% | 19% | 29% | 44% |
| Physics | 50 | 22% | 23% | 46% | 46% | 94% |
| Chemistry | 50 | 22% | 23% | 54% | 47% | 94% |
| Fine Art | 47 | 21% | 9% | 17% | 28% | 77% |
| Design and Technology | 40 | 17% | 11% | 8% | 23% | 23% |
| Arabic | 39 | 17% | 1% | 46% | 47% | 64% |
| Religious Studies | 36 | 16% | 31% | 36% | 32% | 72% |
| Urdu | 23 | 10% | 1% | 83% | 42% | 100% |
| Computer Science | 17 | 7% | 13% | 6% | 30% | 59% |
| Italian | 6 | 3% | 0% | 67% | 53% | 83% |
| Portuguese | 4 | 2% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Chinese | 4 | 2% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Turkish | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
| Persian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 77% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Bengali | 1 | 0% | 0% | — | 35% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 58 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 56 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 45 | — | — |
| Childcare Skills | 27 | — | — |
| Interactive Video | 26 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 25 | — | — |
Where Manchester Academy is
Other secondary schools in Manchester are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Manchester’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Manchester
Burnage Academy for Boys
Academy converter · 1,021 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.6
Cedar Mount Academy
Academy sponsor led · 724 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.2
Chorlton High School
Academy converter · 1,532 pupils
90% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.0
CHS South
Free schools · 1,177 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.3
Co-op Academy Manchester
Academy sponsor led · 1,554 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 44.9
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.