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Melland High School

Mixed · ages 11–19 · with sixth formManchester, North West · Gorton M18 7DTTrust: Bright Futures Educational TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
256of 149 places
Free school meals
74.3%
Year 11 cohort 2025
26
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 27 March 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Melland High School (URN 105615, until 1 August 2012).

What the data says

Of the 25 pupils who finished Year 11 at Melland High School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Melland High School’s own sixth form (Manchester average 15%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none 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.

Melland High School
Manchester
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureMelland High SchoolManchesterEngland
Pupils in the cohort256,414607,348
Any sustained destination100%89%92%
Stayed in education100%86%86%
— school sixth form0%15%34%
— sixth form college0%30%13%
— further education college0%39%37%
— other education100%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%1%3%
Employment0%2%3%
No sustained destination0%7%6%
Destination unknown0%4%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Where Melland High School 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

Cedar Mount Academy

Academy sponsor led · 724 pupils

83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.2

CHS South

Free schools · 1,177 pupils

85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 48.3

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.