Alder Community High School
Community school · 912 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.6
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Audenshaw School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,077of 1,140 places
- Free school meals
- 32.3%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 221
- Ofsted
- Good, 13 March 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Audenshaw School (URN 106273, until 1 September 2010).
What the data says
Audenshaw School has no sixth form. Of the 194 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 40% moved to a sixth form college, 45% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 40% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
Statistics is unusually popular at GCSE: 46% of the year group took it, against 5% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 45.5 against 46.1 across England and 43.6 in Tameside, with 50% 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 | Audenshaw School | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 194 | 2,864 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 92% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 88% | 83% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 2% | 3% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 40% | 36% | 13% |
| — further education college | 45% | 43% | 37% |
| — other education | 2% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 6% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Audenshaw School | Tameside | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 45.5 | 43.6 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 50% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 67% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 18% | 35% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.82 | 3.81 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 26% | 35% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 38.3 | 35.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 48.0 | 47.8 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 18% | 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 | 220 | 100% | 89% | 15% | 20% | 63% |
| Mathematics | 218 | 99% | 88% | 19% | 22% | 77% |
| English Literature | 215 | 97% | 86% | 13% | 21% | 70% |
| Combined Science | 153 | 69% | 65% | 3% | 9% | 48% |
| Geography | 113 | 51% | 41% | 29% | 25% | 69% |
| Statistics | 101 | 46% | 5% | 7% | 20% | 85% |
| History | 92 | 42% | 41% | 11% | 26% | 55% |
| Business Studies | 80 | 36% | 18% | 8% | 20% | 51% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 61 | 28% | 8% | 13% | 21% | 75% |
| Biology | 60 | 27% | 23% | 37% | 45% | 93% |
| Physics | 58 | 26% | 23% | 36% | 46% | 93% |
| Chemistry | 58 | 26% | 23% | 38% | 47% | 98% |
| 3D Design | 48 | 22% | 2% | 23% | 16% | 81% |
| Computer Science | 46 | 21% | 13% | 13% | 30% | 37% |
| Spanish | 28 | 13% | 19% | 32% | 27% | 75% |
| Design and Technology | 23 | 10% | 11% | 13% | 23% | 57% |
| Fine Art | 19 | 9% | 9% | 5% | 28% | 53% |
| Religious Studies | 17 | 8% | 31% | 6% | 32% | 59% |
| Photography | 16 | 7% | 6% | 38% | 19% | 75% |
| Music | 16 | 7% | 5% | 19% | 33% | 100% |
| French | 16 | 7% | 18% | 50% | 29% | 94% |
| Urdu | 12 | 5% | 1% | 25% | 42% | 58% |
| Chinese | 1 | 0% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Physical Education | 1 | 0% | 11% | — | 24% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Studies | 81 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 55 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 38 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 23 | — | — |
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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.