Alder Community High School
Community school · 912 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.6
Academy sponsor led
Droylsden Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 926of 930 places
- Free school meals
- 39.5%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 171
- Ofsted
- School remains Good, 15 September 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registrations: Droylsden School Mathematics and Computing College for Girls (URN 106261, until 1 September 2009); Littlemoss High School for Boys (URN 106262, until 1 September 2009).
What the data says
Of the 176 pupils who finished Year 11 at Droylsden Academy in 2023, 31% moved to a sixth form college, 42% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 31% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
Physical Education is unusually popular at GCSE: 26% of the year group took it, against 11% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 47.7 against 46.1 across England and 43.6 in Tameside, with 49% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Tameside and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Droylsden Academy | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 176 | 2,864 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 87% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 79% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 6% | 3% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 31% | 36% | 13% |
| — further education college | 42% | 43% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 6% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 9% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 4% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Droylsden Academy | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 47.7 | 43.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 49% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 42% | 35% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.34 | 3.81 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 44% | 35% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 43.0 | 35.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 51.4 | 47.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 20% | 15% | 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 | 170 | 99% | 89% | 20% | 20% | 72% |
| Mathematics | 170 | 99% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 74% |
| English Literature | 158 | 92% | 86% | 26% | 21% | 81% |
| Combined Science | 123 | 72% | 65% | 17% | 9% | 67% |
| History | 116 | 68% | 41% | 31% | 26% | 80% |
| Geography | 69 | 40% | 41% | 14% | 25% | 68% |
| Business Studies | 51 | 30% | 18% | 10% | 20% | 33% |
| Physical Education | 45 | 26% | 11% | 27% | 24% | 84% |
| Spanish | 40 | 23% | 19% | 23% | 27% | 70% |
| Biology | 35 | 20% | 23% | 60% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 35 | 20% | 23% | 57% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 35 | 20% | 23% | 51% | 46% | 97% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 33 | 19% | 8% | 30% | 21% | 88% |
| French | 31 | 18% | 18% | 23% | 29% | 71% |
| Design and Technology | 31 | 18% | 11% | 6% | 23% | 61% |
| Photography | 26 | 15% | 6% | 12% | 19% | 100% |
| Religious Studies | 23 | 13% | 31% | 26% | 32% | 83% |
| Music | 19 | 11% | 5% | 32% | 33% | 100% |
| Fine Art | 17 | 10% | 9% | 6% | 28% | 94% |
| Drama | 12 | 7% | 7% | 25% | 27% | 100% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 3% | 13% | — | 30% | — |
| Chinese | 4 | 2% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| German | 1 | 1% | 5% | — | 33% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 45 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 12 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Tameside
All Saints Catholic College
Academy converter · 810 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.5
Audenshaw School
Academy converter · 1,077 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.5
Denton Community Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,107 pupils
73% stayed in education
Dixons Ashton Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,326 pupils
80% stayed in education · Attainment 8 38.1
Dixons Pennine Academy
Academy converter · 592 pupils
75% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.8
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.