Altrincham College
Academy converter · sixth form · 973 pupils
88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.5
Academy converter
Flixton Girls School
- Pupils on roll
- 981of 900 places
- Free school meals
- 18.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 172
- Ofsted
- Good, 28 November 2023Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Flixton Girls' High School (URN 106364, until 1 August 2011).
What the data says
Flixton Girls School has no sixth form. Of the 184 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 25% moved to a sixth form college, 60% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 26% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 48.3 against 46.1 across England and 57.9 in Trafford, with 44% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% 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 Trafford and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Flixton Girls School | Trafford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 184 | 3,338 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 99% | 95% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 94% | 92% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 42% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 25% | 20% | 13% |
| — further education college | 60% | 27% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 3% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 1% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Flixton Girls School | Trafford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 48.3 | 57.9 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% | 64% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% | 79% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 59% | 50% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.25 | 5.24 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 23% | 19% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 36.1 | 40.0 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 52.0 | 62.1 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 8% | 18% | 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 | 171 | 99% | 89% | 25% | 20% | 85% |
| Mathematics | 171 | 99% | 88% | 13% | 22% | 74% |
| English Literature | 167 | 97% | 86% | 16% | 21% | 81% |
| Combined Science | 136 | 79% | 65% | 9% | 9% | 55% |
| French | 103 | 60% | 18% | 7% | 29% | 48% |
| Geography | 92 | 53% | 41% | 30% | 25% | 74% |
| History | 68 | 40% | 41% | 35% | 26% | 79% |
| Psychology | 55 | 32% | 3% | 11% | 22% | 64% |
| Photography | 44 | 26% | 6% | 41% | 19% | 98% |
| Business Studies | 41 | 24% | 18% | 34% | 20% | 83% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 41 | 24% | 8% | 7% | 21% | 80% |
| Biology | 33 | 19% | 23% | 27% | 45% | 85% |
| Chemistry | 31 | 18% | 23% | 29% | 47% | 90% |
| Physical Education | 29 | 17% | 11% | 7% | 24% | 52% |
| Physics | 29 | 17% | 23% | 28% | 46% | 93% |
| Media Studies | 24 | 14% | 4% | 21% | 20% | 88% |
| Fine Art | 24 | 14% | 9% | 29% | 28% | 83% |
| Sociology | 22 | 13% | 4% | 14% | 21% | 59% |
| Textiles | 18 | 10% | 2% | 0% | 27% | 50% |
| Design and Technology | 17 | 10% | 11% | 24% | 23% | 59% |
| Religious Studies | 11 | 6% | 31% | 45% | 32% | 91% |
| Computer Science | 9 | 5% | 13% | 22% | 30% | 78% |
| Music | 7 | 4% | 5% | 29% | 33% | 57% |
| Drama | 7 | 4% | 7% | 29% | 27% | 86% |
| Dance | 6 | 3% | 1% | 17% | 27% | 83% |
| Chinese | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Urdu | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 22 | — | — |
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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.